To find the price without the sale tax you find the opposite of 12%, which would be 88%. Then you multiply .88 by 249.99 to get 219.9912, and since it is money you round to the hundreth to get 219.99.
That's easy it is 5,300,000 I think by the way Might be wrong I hurt my eye so yea don't say I am not good at math it is my eye hurting or it can be 5,300,288