A laptop has a listed price of $816.98 before tax. If the sales tax rate is 9.75%, find the total cost of the laptop with sales tax included. Round your answer to the nearest cent, as necessary.

896.64

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the final price of the laptop you take the entire price of the laptop, 1, and add the sales tax amount of .0975 to get 1.0975.  You multiply this amount with the listed price to get the final amount paid, the laptop plus sales tax.  $816.98 x 1.0975 = 896.6356.  This rounds to 896.64

$896.64

Step-by-step explanation:

First, turn 9.75% into a decimal.  Move the decimal one place to the right. now, multipy 0.0975 by 816.98.  Then take 79.65555 and round it to the nearest cent. Now take that number (79.66) and add it to 816.98.

b. the decimal could be two-tenths.

step-by-step explanation:

answer: there are x+184 pages in olivia's book.

step-by-step explanation:

let the total number of pages in the book which olive has already read be x.

then if olive has 184 pages left to read, then the total number of pages are in olive's book= pages she has read+pages she has left to read

therefore, the total number of pages in olivia's book=

hence, there are x+184 pages in olivia's book.