Given in the question:
a.) $6.12 sales tax was collected when a jacket was purchased.
b.) The sales tax was 7.7% of the price of the jacket.
To be able to get the price of the jacket, we will be using this formula:
[tex]\text{ Total Price = }\frac{Sales\text{ Tax}}{\frac{\text{Tax percentage}}{100}}[/tex][tex]\text{ Total Price = }\frac{\text{ \$6.12}}{\frac{\text{7}.7\text{\%}}{100}}\text{ = }\frac{\text{ \$6.12}}{0.077}[/tex][tex]\text{Total Price = \$}79.4805194805\text{ }\approx\text{ \$79.48}[/tex]Therefore, the price of the jacket is $79.48.
