A laptop has a listed price of $887.95 before tax. If the sales tax rate is 7.75%, find the total cost of the laptop with sales tax included. Round your answer to the nearest cent, as necessary.

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?