Sales Tax and Commission

  1. A person purchase a television for $674.99. What is the sales tax amount if the sales tax rate is 8.95%?

  2. The total price paid for a dining table was $913.62. The price tag indicated  a purchase price of $843.99. What is the sales tax rate?

  3. A sales person sells $2,973.56 worth of home appliances in one week. His commission rate is 15.75%. How much commission did he earn?

  4. A recent paycheck showed that a sales clerk earned $1,234.53 for one month of sales. If the sales clerk sold $18,705.00 worth of merchandise, What is the commission rate?

Source: Algebra2Go, https://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/Lperez/Algebra2Go/prealgebra/ratios/salestaxcommHW.pdf
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