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At a dinner, the meal cost $22 and a sales tax of $1.87 was added to the bill. What percentage of sales tax was added? (Hint: make a fraction then change it to a percent)

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We have that a sales tax was of $1.87 was added to the cost of a meal of $22.

And we need to find how much is 1.87 in percentage.

For this, we are told that we need to make a fraction. This fraction will be the cost of the tax by the cost of the meal:


(1.87)/(22)

That is because we need to find how much in percentage is 1.87 out of 22.

Now, we make the division and the result is:


(1.87)/(22)=0.085

Finally, we make the conversion from decimal to percentage. This conver

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