A city's sales tax is 0.07.
1. Write this decimal as a fraction.
2. How many cents of tax are on each dollar?
Answer (2)
To transform decimal to fraction its easy to read decimal. So 0.07 is seven hundredths. Now we know that in the nominator should be seven and in the denominator 100. So 0.07 = 100 7 . - the result
Now we have to multiply 0.07 by dollar. 0.07*1 = 0.07 = 7 cents - the result
The decimal 0.07 can be written as the fraction 100 7 . For each dollar, there is a tax of 7 cents. Therefore, the sales tax on a dollar amount is 7 cents for every dollar spent.
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