SAT MATH · Ratios & Percent · Standard

Ratios & Percent: A price including math tax is math dollars. What was the pre-tax price?

Part–whole, percent change, mixtures.

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A price including 6.5%6.5\% tax is 85.2085.20 dollars. What was the pre-tax price?

Hint and answer

Concept to use

$\% = \frac{part}{whole}\times 100$.

Hint

Divide by 1.065.

Answer

80

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