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In a city, the owner of a house valued at 470 thousand dollars needs to pay $1,287.80 in property tax.
At this tax rate, how much property tax should the owner pay if a house is valued at 780 thousand dollars? How do I solve this?
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Since the tax rate is the same, you can write and use this propotion
= ,
which exactly express that the rate is the same.
From the proportion, x = = 2137.20 dollars. ANSWER
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