Jose sees a shirt he wants to buy. his friend reminds him that he'll have to pay the price of the shirt plus sales tax.

A formula describing this scenario is t=c+cb

where t = total price jose paid for the shirt

c = cost of the shirt

B = sales tax (percent)

Jose wants to find the cost of sales tax. Rewrite the formula to solve for the percent sales tax

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Cordell King

8 July, 07:14

Jose sees a shirt he wants to buy. his friend reminds him that he'll have to pay the price of the shirt plus sales tax.

A formula describing this scenario is t=c+cb

where t = total price jose paid for the shirt

c = cost of the shirt

B = sales tax (percent)

Jose wants to find the cost of sales tax. Rewrite the formula to solve for the percent sales tax

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Kaufman · Answer 1

In order to rewrite it we can use the next procedure:

t=c+cb

t - c = cb

(t - c) / c = b

And there you have the formula done

Hope this works for you