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
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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?
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.
