Tax Time
A shirt costs $20. The sales tax rate is 5%. Find the tax amount.
$1
You tip your server 15% on a $40 meal.
Find the tip amount.
$6
A salesperson earns 10% commission on $200 of sales. Find the commission earned.
$20
A deli owner sold 90 sandwiches in one day. Of those sandwiches, 36 were pastrami. Write and solve an equation to show what percent of sandwiches sold were pastrami.
36 = p(90)
40%
In a survey of 2,400 people who owned a certain type of car, 1,320 said they would buy that type of car again. What percent of the people surveyed were satisfied with the car?
55%
A video game has $3.60 in tax. The tax rate is 6%. Find the price before tax.
$60
A tip was $8.40, which was 20% of the bill.
Find the bill amount.
$42
A real-estate agent earned $7,500 in commission at 3%. Find the sales price of the house.
$250,000
In a company, 70% of the workers are women. If 1,620 people work for the company who aren't women, how many workers are there in all?
5,400
The local newspaper has letters to the editor from 40 people. If this number represents 2% of all of the newspaper's readers, how many readers does the newspaper have?
2,000
The tax on a purchase is $12.50, which is 5% of the total price. What was the total price?
$250
A customer leaves a $12.60 tip on a meal. The tip rate is 18%. Find the meal cost.
$70
A salesperson’s commission was $420, which was 7% of total sales. Find the total sales.
$6,000
The store earned $120 (they paid $800 for the computer intially)
There are 5,000 books in the town's library. Of these, 4,300 are fiction. What is the percent equation?
4,300 = p(5,000)
A laptop costs $540 including 8% tax.
Find the amount of tax paid.
$40 (pre-tax price = $500)
A student tipped $9, which was 12% of the cost of a haircut. Find the haircut cost.
$75
A realtor sells property and earns $9,600, which is 4% of the selling price. Find the property’s price.
$240,000
Liam put $40 in savings in March. On April 15, he put 175% of this amount into savings. What is the total amount he has in savings at the end of the month?
$110 (he put $70 in on April 15)
Two Part Question
A salesperson's commission rate is 5%. What is the commission from the sale of $36,000 worth of furnaces? Suppose sales would double. What would be true about the commission?
$1,800
Commission would double as well
A customer paid $45.50 in tax. The tax rate was 7%.
Find the item’s price before tax.
$650
A limo driver wants a 17% tip. The customer leaves $25.50. Find the original ride cost.
$150
A jeweler makes 12% commission and earned $1,260.
Find the amount of jewelry sold.
$10,500
At a real estate agency, an agent sold a house for $347,000. The commission rate is 4.5% for the real estate agency and the commission rate for the agent is 25% of the amount the real estate agency gets. How much did the agency make on the house? How much did the agent earn in commission?
$15,615 (agency)
$3,903.75 (agent)
A large university accepts 60% of the students who apply. Of the students the university accepts, 30% actually enroll. If 20,000 students apply, how many actually enroll?
3,600