amelia pays $11.31 in sales tax on a new sewing machine that cost $150.75. how much sales tax does amelia pay per follow for the price of the sewing machine?
The sales tax rate can be found by dividing the amount of sales tax paid by the price of the item:
Sales tax rate = amount of sales tax ÷ price of item
Sales tax rate = $11.31 ÷ $150.75
Sales tax rate = 0.075 (or 7.5%)
So Amelia pays 7.5% in sales tax for the price of the sewing machine. To find out how much she pays per dollar of the price, we can simply multiply the price by the sales tax rate:
Sales tax per dollar of price = price of item × sales tax rate
Sales tax per dollar of price = $150.75 × 0.075
Sales tax per dollar of price = $11.31 ÷ 19
Sales tax per dollar of price = $0.595 (rounded to two decimal places)
Therefore, Amelia pays $0.595 in sales tax for every dollar of the price of the sewing machine.