SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem: Including 6% salestax a car sold for $15,370. What is the pretax cost of the car?
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Question 948069: Please help me solve this word problem: Including 6% salestax a car sold for $15,370. What is the pretax cost of the car?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, MathLover1:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How is that a "word problem?"
It's a sales problem.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Including %= sales tax a car sold for $.
a car is sold for
let the pretax cost of the car be
-the pretax cost of the car was $
check:
% sales tax was
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