terra recives a tip of $6.30. if this was 14% of the cost of the meal what was the cost of the meal .

Question

how to solve this

Answer 1

Hello my dear, 

you already  the tips amount: $6.30; that is 14% of the cost of the meal. 

you would divide 6.30 by 14%. That gives you 7.30*100/14. You get $45 as the answer.

Answer 2

In problems such as this the word "is" means "equals"

and the word "of" means multiply

 

14% = 14/100 or .14

 

$6.30 is 14% of the cost of the meal... So

 

6.30 = .14(Cost)

Cost = 6.30/.14

Cost = 45

 

The cost of the meal was $45

 

I hope this helps.  Good luck

 

Andrew