5th Grade Math Sales Tax Word Problems

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Fifth Grade: Sales Tax Word Problems

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A shirt costs $60.00. It is on sale for 30% off the original ...
A man goes into a grocery store
A man goes into a grocery store and buys a grapefruit and a toy ball.  A 7% tax is applied to the price of non-food items.  If the total bill is $5.15, including $0.18 in tax on the toy ...
A bicycle shop is selling
A bicycle shop is selling $500.00 bikes at 10% off. If the sales tax is 7% how much will the bike cost
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Total with sales tax is 491.26. The sales tax is 8%...
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Bill bought a coat for $125.00. The sales tax was 7%. What is the total cost of the ...
A woman buys three board games
A woman buys three board games for $107.10, including tax. If each board game cost $34...
At a restaurant you only have
At a restaurant you only have $20 to spend on dinner. In addition to the cost of the meal you must pay a 5% sales tax and leave a 15% ...
As basket ball sells
As basket ball sells for 20 bucks if there is 5.75% sales ...
Your family went out to eat
Your family went out to eat. The total bill was $68.50...
Jon bought groceries
Jon bought groceries for $105.30 and paper product for $35.50. The total bill including tax was $142.93. There was no tax charged on the ...
A magazine advertises
A magazine advertises that a subscription price of $29.99 ( for 12 issues) represents a savings of 70% from the newsstand price.
A- What does this imply the price of one issue must be? (Write an equation and solve it for the price.)
B- If you found that the actual price for a single issue is $8.00, would you consider the ad to be in ...
Ashley goes into the mall
Ashley goes into the mall and see this really cute tank top for 59.99 with a sale tax of 2.99 and decides to buy sunglasses that cost 99.99 with a sales tax of 3.45 and a pair of pants for 45...
An item is priced at $14.65
An item is priced at $14.65. If the sales tax is 5%...
Stuar is buying a pair of jeans
Stuar is buying a pair of jeans that regularly cost $40. They are on sale for 20% off. If the tax rate is 8%...
A shirt cost $74.89
A shirt cost $74.89 and the sales tax is 10 1/4%...
After the 15% sales price
After the 15% sales price the jeans were $11.50...
You buy an item that costs
You buy an item that costs $29.99 and the sales tax comes to $2.17
Calculate the tax rate that was ...
Meghan Smith paid $2.70 in sales tax
Meghan Smith paid $2.70 in sales tax on an item priced at $45. Later she paid $13.25, including the sales tax at the same rate, for a second ...
The sales tax in Kings county
The sales tax in Kings county is 8.5%. You buy an item costing 1,594.99
Estimate the sales tax due on this item, making the calculations as simple as you can.
Explain how you estimated.
Calculate the exact sales tax, and compare this with your estimate.
Explain whatever differences you find
Inclusive of a 7.5% sales tax
Inclusive of a 7.5% sales tax, a diamond ring sold for $3010.00...

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