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How do you add tax to an equation

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where i live it’s 12% so let’s say you bought a item which is $20 you would times 20 by 0.12 and you’d get 2.4 so the. you’d add the two numbers and it would equal $22.4
User Fetty
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you multiply it by the percent by your state (eg. california is 7.5%, so you multiply x amount by .075)
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