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If the sales tax rate is 6.5% and the tax on a purchase is $39, what was the amount of the purchase?
\n" ); document.write( "Let amount of the purchase be \"x\".
\n" ); document.write( "EQUATION:
\n" ); document.write( "0.065x=39
\n" ); document.write( "x = $600
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