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

$1.00
$1.00

$1.91
$1.91

$2.13
$2.13

$2.99
$2.99
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Answer 1

To calculate the sales tax that Bailey will owe, you can use the following formula:

\[ \text{Sales Tax} = \text{Cost} \times \text{Sales Tax Rate} \]

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).

Now, plug in the values:

\[ \text{Sales Tax} = 21.25 \times 0.09 \]

Calculating that:

\[ \text{Sales Tax} = 1.9125 \]

Since sales tax is typically rounded to two decimal places, it will be approximately $1.91.

So, the correct response is $1.91.