SOLUTION: Lily Bloomingdale sold a dozen cookies and charged a meals tax of $1.11. The tax rate is 6%.
What was the cost of the cookies before tax?
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Question 830582: Lily Bloomingdale sold a dozen cookies and charged a meals tax of $1.11. The tax rate is 6%.
What was the cost of the cookies before tax?
Answer by JulietG(1812) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Those must be some really good cookies to charge so much!
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What the question is asking is "What amount times .06 = 1.11?"
or
.06x = 1.11
Divide each side by .06
x = 18.5 <<--cost of cookies before tax
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Let's plug that value in to the original question to make certain the answer is correct.
"Lily Bloomingdale sold a dozen cookies for $18.50 and charged a meals tax of $1.11. The tax rate is 6%."
$18.50 * 6% = $1.11
Total cost with tax = $18.50 + $1.11, or $19.61
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