How much is from the sale of merchandise and how much is sales tax?

Question

J.W is an artist and sells his pottery each year at a local Renaissance Festival. He keeps track of his sales and the 8.05% sales tax he collects by making notations in a ledger. Every evening he checks his records by counting the total money in his cash drawer.After a day of selling pottery, the cash totaled $1293.38. How much is from the sale of merchandise and how much is sales tax?

Answer 1

8.05% of the total is from tax.

The rest is sale of merchandise

 

8.05% = 8.05/100 = 0.0805

 

0.0805(1293.38) = $104.12 from tax

 

Merchandise sales = 1293.38 - 104.12 = $1189.26