You purchase a shirt for $8.50. There is a 6% sales tax. Your total cost will be

A. $13.60

B. $9.01

C. $8.98

D. $8.55

For this question we start but dividing $8.50 by 100 (8.50/100 = 0.085).

Then we multiple the answer by 6 (0.085*6 = $0.51).

We then add $0.51 to the original $8.50 (0.51+8.50 = $9.01).

Therefore the answer is B. $9.01

B because you divide 8.5 by 100 to get 1%. then you times it 6 which equals to 0.51 to get 6 %. You then add it to 8.5 to get 9.01