SOLUTION: 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 v

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Question 1186840: 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?
Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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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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