Question

If you pay 5% sale tax on three items have you paid a total of 15% sales tax? why or why not

Answer 1

no it would be 5% on all the stuff like 50% of 10 is 5

Answer 2

if all 3 items are bought at the same time you only pay 5% sales tax on the total of the 3 items, not 5% on each item.