Question

Mr.james purchases a lawn mower that originally sold for $275.00.The lawn mower was on sale for 15% off. The sales tax rate is 7.5% .how much did mr .james pay for the lawn mower?

Answer 1

Mr James pays about 251.28 dollars for his lawn mower including sales tax.

The way to finding this answer is a multi step process.

1) Multiply .15 (which is your discount) by the Original price of the lawn mower (275.00) which is 41.25

2) Subtract your discount (41.25) from the Original price of the lawn mower two get 233.75

3) 233.75 is your total without sales tax. To find sales tax you then multiply 233.75 by 0.075 which is your sales tax to get an answer of 17.53125. Depending on how you round your answer, you’ll either add 17.53 to 233.75 or 17.54 to your answer.

4) if you add 17.53 to 233.75, you’ll end up with 251.28 or add 17.54 to 233.75 to get 251.29

Answer 2

Answer: 233.75 with sales tax rate of $20.62

Step-by-step explanation: eeee

find the amount of the discount, and change the rate of discount to a decimal: 15% changed to 0.15. Multiply the cost by the rate of discount. Subtract the amount of discount from the cost.

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