Sales Tax Activity

- Year groups
- Years 4–11 (Key Stages 2–4)
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Life Studies
- Topic
- Sales Tax, Sales Tax Activity
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Activity Introduction
An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about STEM subjects.
Sales Tax
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The activity is perfect for encouraging the researching skills for the students, while learning more about this topic.
Sales Tax
This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.
Instructions
Figure out the price of each product after adding the sales tax using this information: Appliances have 32% taxes, food has 7% taxes, cars have 18% taxes, houses have 22% taxes, and clothes have 12% taxes.
Format
Available in a PDF format.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Calculate sales tax as a percentage of a price
Find a final price by adding tax to the original amount
Skills covered
Percentage calculation — applying a different tax rate to each product category
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Core concepts
Sales tax
Percentages
Personal finance
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