Malachi bought a new fishing rod. the regular price of the fishing rod was $125.99. he bought it on sale with a 15% discount. sales tax of 3% is applied to the discounted total. what was the sale price with tax of malachi's fishing rod to the nearest cent?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.