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visual basic program help?

im making a program for my programming class at school, its a beginner class, my program adds up many items and their prices and puts them in a text box. i also have to add the total price plus a 5% sales tax... i cant figure out a way to add the sales tax to the total price.... please help

Update:

my friend told me to try,.

Me.txtbxtax.Text = Val(Me.txtbxtotal.value) * 0.05

but it doesnt work

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Ur Friend was using 08 just do the Val(Text1.text) * 0.5) and Dim something as Double

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I don't know VB, but I know C++, so look. Tax would be something like this

    real price / 100 * 5 // (5% tax)

    The price with tax would be:

    real price * 1.05 // 5 % added

    I hope it helped.

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