Megan bought 50 beads for $9.95. she received a 10% discount, and she paid a sales tax of 6%. how much did she pay for the beads?

She paid a total of $9.50 for the purchase of beads.

Given:
Original Price = $9.95
Discount Rate = 10%
Sales tax = 6%

Compute for the discount to get the discounted price.

9.95 * 10/100 = 0.995  discount
9.95 - 0.995 = 8.955 or rounded up to 8.96 discounted price

Sales tax is applied to the discounted price
8.96 * 6/100 = 0.5376 rounded up to 0.54 sales tax

She paid $8.96 for the beads and $0.54 for the sales tax to a total of $9.50 

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