Very buys a basket of mangoes that is priced $14 before tax. The sales tax is 6%. What is the total price Avery pays for the basket of mangoes

Avery needs to pay $14.84

Step-by-step explanation:

When there's a tax we need to sum the original value of the product with the tax's value. To find the amount of money Avery needs to pay in taxes we can apply a rule of three as shown below:

Where "x" is the tax value, and $14 represents 100%, since it's the value used to calculate the tax. We have:

The value to be paid is the product value plus the tax, therefore:

Avery needs to pay $14.84