The following two-way table shows the responses from a group of people, categorized by age-group, when asked about their favorite types of vacations.

answer: Sales tax is an amount added to a price to get the total. We multiply by the decimal for the percent; this means we divide the percent by 100 before we multiply. Once we multiply, this gives us the amount of sales tax. We add this to the price of the item to get the total purchase price.