For Each Problem: Write a Proportion, Solve It, and Label Your Answers

Discounts and Sales Tax For each problem: write a proportion, solve it, and label your answers.

1. Fred Flintstone is shopping at the Bedrock Bargain Basement. If bowling balls are on sale for 30% off the regular price and Fred is buying one that regularly sells for $27, find the amount of his discount and the sale price of the bowling ball.

2. Wilma and Betty heard about the big sale at the Bargain Basement, so they went shopping too. Betty bought a bonnet which had a regular price of $40. If she saved $5 by buying it one sale, find the rate of discount.

3. Wilma found a super sale on a mink-a-saurus fur coat, but on the way home she forgot the original price. She remembered that she had saved $90 by buying it one sale and that the coat had been discounted 60%. What was the original price?

4. The sales tax rate in Bedrock is rock bottom. The sales tax of $1.89 is charged for an official Saber-toothed skateboard that sells for $54. What is the sales tax rate in Bedrock?

5. The Mayor of Bedrock is raising the sales tax rate to 6 ½%. Barney is going to buy a new car that costs $2,400. Find the amount of sales tax that he must pay and the total cost of his new car.

6. In Boulder city, the sales tax rate is only 5%. So, Fred travels there to buy a Hondasaurus motorbike. If the sales tax on it is $28.75, what is the price of the Hondasaurus? Discounts and Sales Tax 7. A chrome-plated kickstand for Fred’s Hondasaurus will cost him $11.49. If he buys it in Boulder City at a rate of 5% sales tax, how much sales tax will he pay?

8. Pebbles Flintstone needs new tires for her babybuggy. If Fred pays $32 for the tires and $1.44 for the sales tax, what is the rate of sales tax?

9. Fred bought a CD for $13.95 and a poster for $5.75. If the sales tax rate is 5%, find the sales tax and the total cost of the two items.

10. Wilma bought a steel trap with a marked price of $180 and a discount of $8.10. What is the rate of discount?

11. Bam Bam bought rollerskates with an original price of $55.80 and a rate of discount of 40%. Find the discount and the sale price.

12. Wilma bought a Bedrock pennant marked $9.50 and paid $0.57 sales tax. What is the rate of sales tax?