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=Percent and Proportions=

Megan and George are selling the school. Ally and Jamie are trying to figure out how much the school would be with sales tax. =The school costs 2 billion dollars without tax. To figure out the problem we... = =1) Use amount of sales tax over total = % over 100 = =2) Then replace amount of sales tax over total = % over 100 with 2,000,000,000 over x = 8 over 100 =3) Next you cross multiply = =4) After that you divide both side by 100 to 160,000,000 = =5) When everything is done you add 160,000,000(tax) + 2,000,000,000 = =6) You get the final answer of 2,160,000,000 =



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