Question

Brad Childress bought a new van priced at $32,900. The state sales tax rate is 8.5% and the city sales tax rate is 4.5%. Find the total sales tax Brad paid to buy this van$4,277$5,186$3,987$4,563None of these choices are correct.

Answer 1

First, we convert the percentages to decimal by dividing by 100.

`\begin{gathered} 8.5\%=(8.5)/(100)=0.085 \\ 4.5\%=(4.5)/(100)=0.045 \end{gathered}`

The total tax Brad will pay can be found by summing the state sales tax and the city sales tax.

State Sales Tax >>>

`\begin{gathered} 0.085*32,900 \\ =\$2796.50 \end{gathered}`

City Sales Tax >>>

`\begin{gathered} 0.045*32,900 \\ =\$1480.50 \end{gathered}`

The total amount of tax is

2796.50 + 1480.50 = $4277