Question

An item costs $390 before tax, and the sales tax is .$11.17 Find the sales tax rate. Write your answer as a percentage.

Answer 1

Answer:

tax rate =

$\frac{11.17}{390} = 0.2864102564\%$

Step-by-step explanation:

to find a tax we multiply the price by the tax rate to find the tax value so when we want to find the tax rate we should divide tax value by the price