SAT Mathematics Practice Test 7

Question : 32 of 59

Marks: +1, -0

A customer paid

\$53.00

for a jacket after a 6 percent sales tax was added. What was the price of the jacketbefore the sales tax was added?

$\$47.60$
$\$50.00$
$\$52.60$
$\$52.84$

Validate

Solution:

Let x be the price, in dollars, of the jacket before sales tax. The price of the jacket after the 6% sales tax is added was

\$53

. This can be expressed by the equation x + 0.06x = 53, or 1.06x = 53. Dividing each side of this equation by 1.06 gives x = 50. Therefore, the price of the jacket before sales tax was

\$50

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