Including 5% sales tax, an inn charges $252 per night. Find the inn’s nightly cost before the tax is added

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Including 5% sales tax, an inn charges $252 per night. Find the inn’s nightly cost before the tax is added

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Natalia 4 months 2022-01-23T23:57:28+00:00 1 Answer 0

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  1. Isabelle
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    2022-01-23T23:59:11+00:00
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    Hi,

    To find the cost before tax, we must find out how much the tax is. So we multiply 252 x .05 to get 12.6. So we know the tax was 12.6 dollars. Now all we have to do is subtract that from the total to get our answer. 252 – 12.6 = 239.4.

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