Answer:
Sale tax rate = 7.5%
Step-by-step explanation:
The book cost $12.95
If you take 12.95 x 0.075 = 0.97125
Round the answerto the hundredth (0.97)
Add the tax, 12.95 + 0.97 = 13.92
Answer:
One-third
Step-by-step explanation:
One-third (which is about 33.3%) is greater than 25%
Yes, 3/4 is bigger than 3/5.
One way you can verify this is by drawing a bar model, and cut it into four. Color in three pieces.
Then, draw another bar model the same size as the first one, and cut it into five pieces.
Color in three pieces.
You can see that 3/4 has more shaded in area than 3/5.
Another way you can do this is by dividing the numerator by the denominator for both fractions.
Hope this helped.
