Section 2: Sales Tax

Question

1.) 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)
Responses

$2.99
$2.99

$1.91
$1.91

$1.00
$1.00

$2.13

Answer 1

To calculate the sales tax on Bailey's order, you can use the following formula:

Sales Tax = Cost of Item * Sales Tax Rate

In this case, the cost of the food and coffee is $21.25, and the sales tax rate is 9% (or 0.09 in decimal form).

Sales Tax = $21.25 * 0.09
Sales Tax = $1.9125

Now, we typically round sales tax to two decimal places:

Sales Tax ≈ $1.91

Therefore, the amount of tax Bailey will owe on her order is $1.91.