Question

An item costs $20.00 and it has a sales tax rate of 4%. What is the amount of sales tax for that item?

Answer 1

$0.80

Explanation:

To find the sales tax you:

Divide 4% by 100 ( because a percentage is always out of 100) {
`(4)/(100)`= 0.04}

Multiply 0.04 by 20 ( the answer becomes $0.80)

When doing this you primarily finding 4% of $20.

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Answer 2

0.8 ! hope this helps. you take 4% of 20 and that’s how you get the answer