SOLUTION: If a sales tax is increasing from 5% to 6% is it only increasing by 1% or is the sales tax going up by 20%?
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Question 1114643: If a sales tax is increasing from 5% to 6% is it only increasing by 1% or is the sales tax going up by 20%?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's a matter of semantics.
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6 - 5 = 1
(6-5)/5 = 0.2 = 20%
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