Answer: Mr. Sales tax rates vary from state to state. Sales tax is usually the responsibility of the merchant to collect and submit to the state, and stated separately or implicitly added at the time of the sale to consumers. Let's look at some more examples of sales tax.
Example 2: If the sales tax rate is 7. What is the total cost for the tape including tax? If the sales tax rate is 6. What is the total cost for the car including tax? As you can see, for small purchases, sales tax can be a nuisance; whereas for large purchases, sales tax can be a significant amount. Let's look at an example in which the sales tax rate is unknown.
Analysis: Sales tax is the difference between the amount of the total bill and the price of the item. If we divide the sales tax by the price of the item, we get the sales tax rate.
Summary: Sales tax is a tax on goods and services purchased and is normally a percentage added to the buyer's cost. Directions: Each problem below involves sales tax. This unit on tax, tips, and discounts engaged my students and they had a lot of fun with the different activities.
I hope that you can find some of these ideas useful and adapt them to your classroom. If you are interested in getting our tax, tips, and discount activities that are no prep, just print and go, you can check them out here: Mazes , Paper Chain , and Task Cards.
Shmoop video about percents This free video from Shmoop shows some examples of percents. Partner Activities I love having students work in partners. Here are a couple of tax, tips, and discounts activities for you to try out with your students: Paper chain with a partner I love paper chains. Math at the mall online game Math at the Mall is a free game from Math Playground.
Task cards There are so many things that you can do with task cards. Independent Tax, Tips, and Discounts Activities Mazes This is a set of three mazes about finding tax, tips, and discounts. Quizizz Quizizz is an online quiz maker that turns questions into a fun game. Whole class game to review tax, tip, and discount Most of the time we review before a test with a whole class game.
Jeopardy There are a variety of whole class games that I like. Wrapping it up This unit on tax, tips, and discounts engaged my students and they had a lot of fun with the different activities. Thanks so much for reading. Until next time! Share this: Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window Click to share on Facebook Opens in new window Click to share on Pinterest Opens in new window Click to email this to a friend Opens in new window. Privacy Policy.
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