A city has a 5% sales tax. A book costs $32.55 after tax.

How much did it cost before tax?
*please answer quick and tell me how you did it*

$30.92

Step-by-step explanation:

First step is to turn 5% into a decimal so that you can use it easier in a math sentence -- 0.05

Next, find out what 5% of $32.55 is by multiplying

0.05 x 32.55

= 1.6275

Round to the nearest cent because we don't use anything smaller than a cent when we are talking about money.

= $1.63

This is the amount of tax included in the price of $32.55

If we want to know what it the book cost before tax we simply take the tax off.

$32.55 - $1.63

= $30.92

Hope that helps :)

d

step-by-step explanation:

hello and welcome!

so, when we see the words "proportional" along with a table, we need to know that we're looking numbers that divide by the same thing.

looking at this table, we simply have to do a trial and error, and divide to see which numbers have the same quotient. if you look at choice a & c, they both have equal quotients for three of the numbers, with one exception, so those can't be the answer. looking at b, there is no similarity, so that can't be it. then, we see d; if you divide all the numbers in the table, you'll see that they all divide by two, which is a proportional relationship, and our answer!

also, always remember that the x will always be the number that goes into y, and somewhere behind this table, is a formula. for this specific table, the formula would be:

since our x-value is being divided by two to get the y-value. and if they were to ask for more numbers in the series, this is the formula you would use to find them.