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Your meal cost $72.15 including the 11% tax. What was the original cost of your meal before tax?
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Your meal cost $72.15 including the 11% tax. What was the original cost of your meal before tax?

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multiplying 72.15 by .11 or 11% gives you 7.94 - this is the tax taken.
so just subtracting that from 72.15 gives you $64.21 as your answer.
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