SOLUTION: mary paid a 5% sales tax on her new car. what was the price of the car if the sales tax was 425 dollars? please answer as soon as possible>

Question 1052493: mary paid a 5% sales tax on her new car. what was the price of the car if the sales tax was 425 dollars?
please answer as soon as possible>
Found 2 solutions by Theo, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let x be the price of the car.

the sales tax was 5% of the price of the car.

this means the sales tax was .05 * x.

the sales tax was equal to 425 dollars.

this means that .05 * x = 425

divide both sides of this equation by .05 to get x = 425 / .05.

solve for x to get x = 8500.

the price of the car was 8500.

the sales tax was 5% the price of the car.

this means the sales tax = .05 * 8500 which is equal to 425.

solution looks good.

price of the car is 8500.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Reword the problem as: $425 is 5% of what? ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 425 = 0.05 ∙ x 425 = 0.05x Divide both sides by .05 425/0.05 = x 8500 = x The car before tax was added was $8500. Edwin

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