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May someboy help my brain. Its just sales tax. Btw the second answer is wrong.

May someboy help my brain. Its just sales tax. Btw the second answer is wrong.-example-1

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4 votes

Answer:

$6.02

Explanation:

because 8.6% of 70

User Abhishek Thakur
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Answer:

$4.94

Explanation:

We can first solve this by turning this sales tax percentage into a decimal


8.6\% = 0.086\%

Now that we got that and your first answer of $57.40, we can multiply the two numbers.


0.086 * 57.40 = 4.9364

That rounds to 4.94

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