SOLUTION: Jorge has spent $789.37 at the home improvement store. A storewide sale offers an 11% rebate on everything in the store. If he paid a 6% sales tax, how much rebate should he get?
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Question 1173189: Jorge has spent $789.37 at the home improvement store. A storewide sale offers an 11% rebate on everything in the store. If he paid a 6% sales tax, how much rebate should he get?
A. 44.68
B. 81.92
C. 86.83
D. 44.86
Is it 789.37 x .11 = 86.83 ? Found 2 solutions by ewatrrr, Theo:Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source):
Hi
Jorge has spent $789.37 at the home improvement store.
P + .06P = 789.37
1.06P = 789.37
P = (789.37/1.06
P = $744.69
Rebate of 11%
(.11)($744.69) = $81.92
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! i'm looking at this way.
he paid 789.37.
this included 6% sales tax.
divide that by 1.06 and you get a sale price of 744.6886792.
here's a definition about regates from the web.
Rebates are distinct from coupons and other forms of discounting in that they reimburse a customer for part of the purchase price following, rather than at the time of, the sale. By offering consumers cash back on the purchase price, rebates provide an incentive to buy a particular product.
based on this definition, the rebate was aplied to the purchase price after the sale.
the purchase price would be before the tax was applied, as far as i can tell.
based on that, the rebate was applied to 744.6886792.
that * .11 = a rebate of 81.9157 which is rounded to 81.92.
