The total cost to the nearest cent simply means to the nearest hundreths. Therefore, the cost of the shirt is $ 24 and a 6% tax .
The tax is 6 % of cost of the shirt
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{tax price = }\frac{6}{100}\text{ }\times\text{ 24} \\ \text{tax price = }\frac{144}{100} \\ \text{tax price = \$ }1.44 \end{gathered}[/tex][tex]\begin{gathered} t\text{otal cost = 24 + 1.44} \\ \text{total cost = \$}25.44 \end{gathered}[/tex]
