To find the percentage of your taxes allocated to public safety, you need to calculate the share of taxes going to public safety relative to the total taxes.
The total taxes can be found by summing the shares of taxes for each destination:
$241 + $896 + $154 + $177 = $1,468
The share of taxes going to public safety is $154.
To find the percentage, divide the share of public safety taxes by the total taxes and multiply by 100:
($154 / $1,468) * 100 ≈ 10.49%
The answer is therefore a. 10.49%.
On your property tax bill, you see the following table.
Destination
Share of Your Taxes
Roads
$241
Schools
$896
Public Safety
$154
Township
$177
What percentage of your taxes went to funding public safety?
a.
10.49%
b.
12.06%
c.
11.72%
d.
8.94%
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