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

$2.99
$2.99

$2.13
$2.13

$1.91

Answer 1

To calculate the sales tax Bailey owes on her order, you can use the formula:

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

Given the cost of the food and coffee is $21.25 and the sales tax rate is 9% (or 0.09 in decimal form), the calculation is as follows:

\[ \text{Sales Tax} = 21.25 \times 0.09 = 1.9125 \]

Rounding that to two decimal places, Bailey will owe approximately $1.91 in sales tax. Therefore, the correct response is:

$1.91