Bailey is starving! It's lunchtime and she wants to order some food and an iced coffee from Starbucks to be delivered through GrubHub. Bailey lives in a city where the total sales tax is 9%. If the cost of her food and coffee is $21.25, how much tax will Bailey owe on her ordeer?(1 point)

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Responses

$1.00
$1.00

$2.13
$2.13

$1.91
$1.91

$2.99

Answer 1

To calculate the sales tax on Bailey's order, you can follow this formula:

Sales Tax = Cost of the order × Sales Tax Rate

Given:

• Cost of the order = $21.25
• Sales Tax Rate = 9% (or 0.09 in decimal form)

Now, perform the calculation:

Sales Tax = $21.25 × 0.09 = $1.9125

Since we're generally dealing with currency, we'll round this to two decimal places:

Sales Tax ≈ $1.91

So, Bailey will owe approximately $1.91 in sales tax on her order.

The correct answer is $1.91.