Question

the sales tax for a certain state can ne found ny multiplying the purchase price by 1/20 what is the sales.tax on an item that is 25.60 express your answer as a decimal

Answer 1

First, convert 1/20 to decimal form:
1/20 = 0.05
This means that the sales tax rate is 5%.
Multiply the cost of the item times 0.05 to get the amount of the sales tax:
25.60 * 0.05 = $1.28 sales tax