Your bill at a restaurant was $29.54, which included the tax at a rate of 7.4%. what was the price before tax? decimals allowed and round answer to two place.

Let's think about what happens when you find the price after tax. Let the price before tax be . The tax rate is , so the tax part of the total price is . Adding that onto the original price, we see that




So, we can just divide each side by to get the original price, which rounded to two decimal places is .