Question

A laptop has a listed price of a laptop that has a listed price of $538.95 before tax at the sales tax rate is 9.725% find the total cost of the laptop with sales tax included round your answer to the nearest cent as necessary

Answer 1

To do this you have to find how the tax is in dollars and then add that to the price of the laptop. Multiply the 9.725% tax (0.09725) by the cost ($538.95) to get $52.41 dollars for tax. Then add this to the $538.95 price to get your answer which is $591.36