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the price of a ues car that billy is buying is $5,000.if he has to pay 8% in taxes how much will he have to pay for the car including taxes?

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So the total price would be 100% + 8% tax = 108% of the original price. Since 108% written as a decimal is 1.08, we can do the following:

5,000 * 1.08 = 5,400
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