Download 7-7 Sales Tax and Discount

7-7 Sales Tax
and Discount
What is a discount?
Discounts are like what that
we have been talking about?
A
$69 boogie board is on sale at a 35%
discount. What is the sale price?
Two Steps!
 Find
the discount amount.
 Subtract
the discount from the price.
What is sales tax?
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Sales tax is like what that we
have been talking about?
A
DVD player costs $140, and the sales tax is
5.75%. What is the total cost?
Two Steps!
 Find
the sales tax.
 Add
the sales tax to the price.
Find tax AND discount
 What
is the total cost of $12.25 pen set
that is 60% off and has a tax rate of 5%.
Going Backwards!
A
movie ticket is $5.25. If this price is after
a 30% discount, what was the original
price?
 What
percent do we SEE?