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If sales tax on a $16.00 DVD is $1.32 find the sales tax on a $120.00 DVD player

User Arunkjn
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the tax is 9.90 at 8.25% or .0825
User Alok Agarwal
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For this I would set this up and cross multiply
16.00 120.00
-------- ----------
1.32 x

120.00x1.32=158.4 and 158.4/16 = 9.9

So the sales tax is $9.9
Hope this helped you

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