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Autograder Demo: Sales Tax in C++

Write a program in C++ that prompts the user for the price of an article (before taxes) and that prints the price of the article including state sales tax at 6.25%, county sales tax at 1.00%, and city sales tax at 1.50%. The result must be printed with two decimal places.

tax.cpp

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

#define STATE_TAX  6.25
#define COUNTY_TAX 1.00
#define CITY_TAX   1.50

int main(void) {

    double price;
    double tax;
    
    cin >> price;
    
    tax = price * (STATE_TAX + COUNTY_TAX + CITY_TAX) / 100;
    cout << fixed << setprecision(2) << price + tax << endl;


    return 0;
}

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