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Find the sale tax and the total cost of a wireless mouse that cost $21.99 the tax rate is 4.7% round the answer to the nearest cent

Find the sale tax and the total cost of a wireless mouse that cost $21.99 the tax-example-1
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Given:

The cost of a wireless mouse is $21.99 and tax rate 4.7%.

To find:

Find the sales tax and total cost.

Step-by-step explanation:


Sales\text{ tax= Pre tax cost}* tax\text{ rate}
Total\text{ cost= pre tax cost + sales tax}

Solution:

We will start with converting sales tax percentage into decimal

4.7% = 0.47

Now, to find Sales tax of wireless mouse multiply pre tax cost with tax rate.


\begin{gathered} Sales\text{ tax = 21.99}*0.47 \\ Sales\text{ tax=10.33} \end{gathered}

Now, to find total cost add pre tax cost and sales tax


\begin{gathered} Total\text{ cost = }21.99+10.33 \\ Total\text{ cost = }32.32 \end{gathered}

Hence, these are the required values.

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