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Question 994815: A purchase order includes items that cost a total of $8,200. Some of those items require an additional sales tax of 4% whereas the remaining items require a 5% sales tax. If the total sales tax is $330, how much is taxed at each rate? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = amount taxed at 4% = amount taxed at 5%
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$8,000 is taxed at 4%
$200 is taxed at 5%
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check:
OK
