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tax_calc by enrique 

taxrate = 0.175
print "Enter price (ex tax): " 
s = gets 
subtotal = s.to_f 
tax = subtotal * taxrate 
puts "Tax on $#{subtotal} is $#{tax}, so grand total is $#{subtotal+tax}"