Question

An antique has a price tag of $409. The sales tax rate for the county is 9.5%. How much sales tax will be due?

Answer 1

Answer:

$\ 38.855$

Explanations:

Given the following parameters:

$\begin{gathered} \text{Price tag = \ 409} \\ \text{Tax rate = 9.5\%} \end{gathered}$

Get the sales tax price;

$\begin{gathered} \text{Sales tax price = 9.5\% of Price tag} \\ \text{Sales tax price = 9.5\% of \ 409} \\ \text{Sales tax price }=\text{ 0.095}\times409 \\ \text{Sales tax price =\ }38.855 \end{gathered}$

Hence the price of the sales tax is $38.855