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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: Wilma on March 22, 2009, 02:04:06 PM

Title: Math Question
Post by: Wilma on March 22, 2009, 02:04:06 PM
Purchase price    54.54
sales tax              3.23

What is the sales tax rate?

I know, a fifth grader could do this, but I haven't been a fifth grader since 1940.
Title: Re: Math Question
Post by: Dee Gee on March 22, 2009, 02:09:49 PM
5.9% should be the rate of taxation which is low a rate now.
Title: Re: Math Question
Post by: W. Gray on March 22, 2009, 02:56:29 PM
That figures out to be 5.9%.

Our rate here in Centennial is 6.45%.

Aurora, Colorado, went berserk a few years ago and started charging 8.2%.

Purchases of food in Colorado are tax exempt, though, but dining out is taxable.
Title: Re: Math Question
Post by: Wilma on March 22, 2009, 03:15:12 PM
Thank you.  That is the tax rate in Wichita now.
Title: Re: Math Question
Post by: heather_tyler_2014 on March 23, 2009, 05:29:49 PM
Ohh darn! I was about to jump and tell you... Then I saw you were answerd! Ohh well :)
Title: Re: Math Question
Post by: Wilma on March 23, 2009, 06:15:49 PM
I am sure you could have answered it, too, Heather.  But you gotta do what you gotta do and you don't have the time to jump on the questions as soon as they come up.  Thanks, anyway.