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Mia went shopping for a new video game. To find the total plus tax, she multiplied the price of the video game by 1.085 . What percent tax did she pay?
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Mia went shopping for a new video game. To find the total plus tax, she multiplied the price of the video game by $1$ . $085$ . What percent tax did she pay? $\newline$ Answer: ______ $\%$

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Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals: word problems

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Q. Mia went shopping for a new video game. To find the total plus tax, she multiplied the price of the video game by

1

.

085

. What percent tax did she pay?

\newline

Answer: ______

\%

Understand the problem: Understand the problem. $\newline$ Mia multiplied the price of the video game by $1.085$ to find the total cost including tax. The number $1.085$ represents the original price (which is $100\%$ of the price) plus the tax percentage. To find the tax percentage, we need to subtract the original price ( $100\%$ ) from the total percentage represented by $1.085$ .
Calculate the tax percentage: Calculate the tax percentage. $\newline$ To find the tax percentage, we subtract $1$ (or $100\%$ ) from $1.085$ . $\newline$ Tax percentage = $1.085 - 1.00$ $\newline$ Tax percentage = $0.085$
Convert to percent: Convert the tax percentage to a percent. $\newline$ To convert the decimal to a percentage, we multiply by $100$ . $\newline$ Tax percentage = $0.085 \times 100$ $\newline$ Tax percentage = $8.5\%$

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