To find the price of the item before tax was included, you can use the formula for sales tax:
\[ \text{Sales Tax} = \text{Price Before Tax} \times \text{Sales Tax Rate} \]
In this case, the sales tax paid is $9.44 and the sales tax rate is 10%, or 0.10 in decimal form.
We can rearrange the formula to solve for the price before tax:
\[ \text{Price Before Tax} = \frac{\text{Sales Tax}}{\text{Sales Tax Rate}} \]
Substituting in the values:
\[ \text{Price Before Tax} = \frac{9.44}{0.10} = 94.40 \]
So, the price of the item before tax was included is $94.40.