Question

A city's sales tax is 0.07 write this decimal as a fraction and tell how many cents of tax are on each dollar

Answer 1

As a fraction it is 7/100 and it would be 7 cents for each dollar.  it is $1x.07

Answer 2

we know that

To convert the decimal as fraction in this problem, multiply and divide by one hundred

$0.07=0.07*\frac{100}{100}=\frac{0.07*100}{100}=\frac{7}{100}$

therefore

the answer Part a) is

the decimal as fraction is equal to $\frac{7}{100}$

Part b)

we know that

$1$ dollar is equal to $100$ cents

$1$ cent is equal to $0.01$ dollars

the tax is equal to $0.07$ dollars

so

by proportion

$\frac{100}{1} \frac{cents}{dollar}=\frac{x}{0.07} \frac{cents}{dollars}\\ \\x=100*0.7\\ \\x=7\ cents$

the tax is equal to $7$ cents

therefore

the answer part b) is

There are $7$ cents of tax in each dollar