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Answer:
$72.00
Step-by-step explanation:
The relationship between price and tax is ...
tax amount = (tax rate) × (price)
Then the price can be found by dividing by the tax rate:
price = (tax amount)/(tax rate)
price = $3.60 / 0.05 = $72.00
The original price of the chair was $72.00.
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Bianca apparently did not pay any attention to the way tax is computed. Nor did she check her work. The original price is not a small fraction of the tax. It is the other way around. Bianca used a wrong relationship between tax and price.
