Angelina and her family are visiting relatives in Ohio. The family is going to the water park for the day, but Angelina forgot to pack her swimsuit. They stop at the store and Angelina finds a swimsuit for $27.99. The sales tax in Ohio is 5.75%. How much will Angelina need to pay for the swimsuit with tax?
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First, we need to find out how much the sales tax is for the swimsuit. To do this, we multiply the price of the swimsuit ($27.99) by the sales tax rate (5.75%).
$27.99 x 0.0575 = $1.607425
Now that we know the amount of the sales tax, we can find the total cost of the swimsuit with tax by adding the original price of the swimsuit to the sales tax amount:
$27.99 + $1.607425 = $29.597425
So, Angelina will need to pay $29.60 for the swimsuit with tax.