Answer:
48 dollars.
Step-by-step explanation:
If you look up "40 percent off of 85" you'll get 48.
First you need to solve for how much you lose for each individual tax, so 420x.0765 will give you how much money you lose to social security tax, then do the same for the other types and add them together, the value will give you the amount you have lost, so taking the total (420) minus the amount lost you will have the amount that you can "take home"
So 420-((420x.0765)+(420x.22)+(420x.0595)) = amount still in your pocket
The exercise is basiacally asking for the perimeter of the garden. The perimeter of a rectangle is twice the sum of its dimensions, so we have

Answer:
31.85
Step-by-step explanation:
to subtract 30 percent from 45.50 just divide the percentage (30) by 100 subtract this value form 1 then multiply it by the initial value (45.50) so
final value = 45.50 x ( 1 -
)
final value = 45.50 x ( 1 - 0.3)
final value = 45.50 x (0.7)
final value = 31.85
subtract 30% is the same as discount 30% this operation could be for example a 30% discount on 45.50
note: 0.3 can be found just by moving the decimal point 2 places to the left
= 0.3 as a decimal
Divide sales tax amount over the item's cost
23.1 / 330 = 0.07
Therefore the sales tax is 7%