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:

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:

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