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
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