A souvenir mug sells for $8.00 at a hotel gift store. Kendra gives the clerk $9.00 and receives $0.56 in change. What is the sales tax rate?

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21 February, 16:18

A souvenir mug sells for $8.00 at a hotel gift store. Kendra gives the clerk $9.00 and receives $0.56 in change. What is the sales tax rate?

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Alexa Walls · Answer 1

If the mug costs $8 and Kendra got back $0.56 back for paying $9 than to find the tax rate you would divide $0.56 by $8 which would end up to be 0.07 percent as the tax rate.