Sally wants to purchase a new snowblower for $349.99. The local sales tax is 7 1/2%. How much sales tax will she have to pay round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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To find the sales tax Sally will have to pay, we need to multiply the price of the snowblower by the sales tax rate.

Sales tax = $349.99 * 7.5% = $349.99 * 0.075 = $26.24925.

Rounding to the nearest hundredth, Sally will have to pay $26.25 in sales tax.