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Including a 5% sale tax an inn charges 168 per night. find the inn nightly cost before tax is added

User Mmkd
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160 is the answer.

Good luck

User Ryandlf
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I would use a proportion:

$168/105% = x/100%
x=$160

Hope this helps!
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