SOLUTION: A man realizes he lost the detailed receipt from the store and only has the credit card receipt with the after-tax total. If the after-tax total was $848.00, and the tax rate in th

Question 1190439: A man realizes he lost the detailed receipt from the store and only has the credit card receipt with the after-tax total. If the after-tax total was $848.00, and the tax rate in the area is 6%, what was the pre-tax subtotal?

Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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If pre-tax total is x (the unknown under the problem's question), the you have this equation


    x + 0.06x = 848  dollars,

or

    1.06x = 848,


which gives you  x =  = 800  dollars.


ANSWER.  Pre-tax subtotal was  800 dollars.

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