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The original price of a shirt is $30. The sale price of the shirt is 20% off of the original price. Sales tax is 7% of the sale price of the shirt. The total cost of the shirt is the sale price plus sales tax. A customer buys the shirt on sale. What is the total cost to the customer?

A. $25.68


B. $17.00


C. $10.70


D. $6.42

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7 votes
25 is the answer you just have to round up
User Oskar Grosser
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Answer:

$25.68

Sales Price:

In order to find the sales price we need to find what 20% off of $30 is. 20% off is 80% of the original price so we'll use 80% instead. Now what we need to do to find 80% of $30 is we need to multiply $30 by 0.8. When you're converting precents to decimals you move the decimal place over 2 spots like this: 38.0% = 0.38. Okay, now that we've figured that out we can do the multiplication:

$30 · 0.8 = $24

Sales Tax:

Now there are 2 ways to go from here:

1. Multiply $24 by 7% then add it to $24

This is the first solution to come to mind but is inefficient

2. Multiply $24 by 107%

You skip the second step by adding $24 in the percent (since $24 is 100% in this case).

Either way you come to the conclusion of $25.68

Hope this helps!

User Stijn Bernards
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