Question

The bill for dinner was $71. The bill included a

10% tax. What was the bill before the tax was
added?
Round your answer to the nearest cent.

Answer 1

$63.9 or rounded up- $64

Explanation:

Step one: first you need to find 10% of 71. To do that you multiply 71 by 0.10. The answer is 7.1

Step two: next you would do 71-7.1 to take off the 10%. you get your answer as $64.

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Answer 2

$63.90

Explanation:

First we want to find 10% of 71, this is 7.1.

Since we want to know the price before the tax was added, we will subtract 7.1 from 71 to get our final answer, $63.9

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