The quickest way to find this is to count the whole numbers between each point given in the answers and look for the answer that falls between 2 and 3 units.
Answer A, -31/2 and 1 is the only answer that meets this criteria.
Catherine could take the original price of $144.97 and multiply it by .09 (9%). This would equal a sales tax of $13.073 which could be rounded to $13.01. Then add the original price of $144.97 to the tax of $13.01 to get a total of $157.98.
