An item has a listed price for $80 if sales tax rate is 3% how much is sales tax in dollars

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Paulina Salinas

30 July, 22:43

An item has a listed price for $80 if sales tax rate is 3% how much is sales tax in dollars

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Malachi Buchanan · Answer 1

Answer: The sales tax would be $2.40

Step-by-step explanation:

Another way of writing any percent would be diving that percent by 100, so 3% would be 0.03 4% would be 0.04 and so forth.

All you have to do is multiply 80 by the decimal of the percent

80 * 0.03 = 2.4 or $2.40