Question

The sales tax for a certain state can be found by multiplying the purchase price by . What is the sales tax on an item that is $25.60? Express your answer as a decimal.
how many dollars

Answer 1

A word or two is/are missing here:  "multiplying the purchase price by         ."

If the sales tax is 5.5% (just an example), then the tax would be 0.055($25.60), or
$1.41 (rounded up from $1.4108).

Please copy down the entire original problem and see if you can now find the correct answer (for a specific sales tax rate) yourself.