A family eats at a food place where they have a 15% discount. Their meal costs 78.65. Leave a 20% tip. What is the total cost of the meal.

Question

The Jayden family eats at a restaurant that is having a 15% discount promotion. Their meals costs $78.65, and they leave a 20% tip. If the tip applies to the costs of the meal before the discount, what is the total cost of the meal?

Answer 1

First calculate what the tip is going to be since the problem specifies that it must be calculated before applying the discount.

 

20% tip -> 20/100 = 0.20

You calculate 20% of 75.68 by multiplying 75.68 × 0.20. This will give you the amount you will leave as tip.

 

After doing this you move on to calculating the discount which is 15%. Do so following the same steps as before

 

15% -> 15/100 = .15

Multiplying 75.68 × 0.15 will give you the amount of money that you get off of your regular price. 

 

Once you know how much money off you're supposed to get with the discount you need to subtract that amount from 75.68 to get the new price of the meal with 15% off. Once you do that add the tip you calculated to get the total.

 

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