Horace wants to buy a new pinball machine for $349.99. The local sales tax is 7.5%. How much sales tax will he pay? Round to the nearest hundreth.

Answer 1

To find the sales tax amount, Horace needs to calculate 7.5% of the purchase price of the pinball machine.

7.5% can be written as 0.075 in decimal form.

Sales tax = $349.99 * 0.075
Sales tax = $26.24925

Since the question asks to round to the nearest hundredth, the sales tax will be $26.25.