The sales tax in your city is 4.4%.and an item costs $3 before tax. how much tax would you pay on that item

The tax is $0.12

Step-by-step explanation:

If you can imagine that price of $3 to be 100% of the price, you can simply add 4.4 onto this to find the percentage you need to find of the price:

100 + 4.4 = 104.4

So now you can use the percentage formula:

Amount x

Simply plug all the values into this:

3 x

3 x 1.04 = 3.12

Now you have the total price and you can simply minus the item cost without tax:

3.12 - 3 = 0.12

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