The total cost of a new​ automobile,

Question

The total cost of a new automobile, including a 33% sales tax on the price of the automobile, is $ 29 comma 950$29,950. How much of the total cost of this new automobile is sales tax?

 

Answer 1

1.33x = 29,950 where x represents the pre-salestax value.  solve for x.

then find sales tax amount by using subtraction.