2) Orion buys 3 books for a total of $25.50. He pays $8 plus sales tax for each book. He wants to know how much the sales tax is for one book.
) Which quantity is unknown?
.) the sales tax for each book
Let t equal the sales tax Orion pays for each book. Write an equation that
represents the situation.
3
8
25.50
t

I think the Sales tax is 0.5 because 0.5 X 3 is 1.5, He paid $24 in total for the books so you would do 24 + 1.5 and get 25.50, So it would have to be 0.5 sales tax for one book. Sorry about my English.

hi,

you half the rectangle that you ae asking about so then you would see the scale factor of 1/2 the one u have selected, the one on top is half.

hope this !