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A DVD movie sells for $29 and the sales tax is 5.5%. What is the total cost of the movie to the nearest penny? Show your work to earn credit.


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29×5.5=159.5 slide the decimal 2 places to the left, so you get 1.595. That rounds up to $1.60. So $29.00+$1.60=$30.60
first you turn the tax percent into a decimal, then multiply by 29 dollars.
the answer you get from multiplying you will add that to 29 $