document.write( "Question 897363: At the beginning of the day, the cash register at the coffee shop contains $55. At the end of the day it contains $928.30. If the sales tax rate is 6.5%, how much of the total is sales tax?
\n" ); document.write( "I have subtracted the $55 from the total then multiplied .065 by the remainder and my answer still does not match with what the back of the book says. I've tried a couple of different ways but since I don't have the book right in front of me and am working off of what I have had my classmates send me, I am stuck! \n" ); document.write( "

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OK, you start with $55 and sell X plus tax on X.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"55%2BX%2B0.065X=928.30\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"1.065X=873.3\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"X=820\"$
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