Question

The price of the jones meal is 65.80. The sales tax is 6.5 percent of the meal and the tip is 20 percent . how much money did did the family pay for the meal?

Answer 1

normally you do
find tax of meal
find tip of meal not include tax
add them

percent means partts ouf ot 100 so
6.5%=6.5/100=0.065
and 20%=20/100=0.2

so
tax of meal=65.8 times 0.065=4.277
round to 4.28

tip=65.8 times 0.2=13.16
add


65.8+4.28+13.16=$83.24