Max will pay $96.93 in total for the DVD player.
Explanation:
The cost of the new DVD player is $89.75
The sales tax that max wants to pay in order to buy that new DVD player was 8% of the cost of the DVD player.
Now, to find the amount he needs to pay for the sales tax, 8% of the cost of DVD player must be calculated by the percentage formula.
Let us take 'x' as the sales tax amount.
Therefore, the equation is x = 8% of 89.75
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The money he needs to pay for sales tax is $7.18
To find the total money Max will pay for the DVD player :
⇒ Total cost = cost of DVD + Sales tax
⇒ 89.75 + 7.18
⇒ 96.93 dollars.
Max will pay $96.93 in total for the DVD player.