A soccer team eats lunch at a restaurant on the way to a tournament. The total cost of the food was $85.25 before 6% tax and 18% tip. ?
a.) What was the tax added to the bill?
b.) What was the tip left for the servers?
The tip is computed on the amount before the tax.
a.) What was the tax added to the bill?
b.) What was the tip left for the servers?
The tip is computed on the amount before the tax.
1 Answer
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
We can rewrite Part A of the question as:
What is 6% of $85.25?
"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 6% can be written as
When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".
Finally, lets call the amount of tax we are looking for "x".
Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for
Or
We can also rewrite Part B of the question as:
What is 18% of $85.25?
You can use the same process as for Part A to solve Part B,
