The sales tax is $161.10 on a stereo sound system purchase of $ 1790. Find the sales tax rate.

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Explanation:

We'll find the tax rate by looking at the proportion of tax to purchase amount.

That's
$(161.1)/(1790) = 0.09 = 9\%$ .

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