Question

Jada has a meal in the Bobby Salazar's restaurant. She adds up the prices listed on the menu for everything they ordered and gets a subtotal for $48. If the tax rate is 8.7% how much is her taxes. (round to the nearest cent) $41.76 $4.76 $4.18 $3.84 $3.99

Answer 1

Tax= $4.176 = $4.18

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

She adds up the prices listed on the menu for everything they ordered and gets a subtotal for $48.

Tax rate= 8.7% = 0.087

To calculate the Tax, we need to use the following formula:

Tax= total spend*tax rate

Tax= 48*0.087

Tax= $4.176 = $4.18