Question

a meal at a restaurant cost $49.28. If the customers leave $8.23 for to determine the tip rate to the nearest whole percent. What is the total cost of the meal.

Answer 1

now, if the customers left 8.23 extra, based on a percentage of the cost of the meal, namely, the 8.23 is a percent of 49.28, then

if we take 49.28 to be the 100%, how much of a percentage is 8.23?

$\bf \begin{array}{ccll} amount&\%\\ \text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}&\text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}\\ 49.28&100\\ 8.23&t \end{array}\implies \cfrac{49.28}{8.23}=\cfrac{100}{t}\implies t=\cfrac{8.23\cdot 100}{49.28}$