Every Monday, Rajiv receives fifty percent off enchilada dinners that regularly cost twenty-eight dollars. Which of the following shows the amount Rajiv pays for the dinners if he tips the waiter seventeen percent of the regular price for the dinners? Assume no sales tax is added to his bill.

fifteen dollars and seventy cents

eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents

twenty-eight dollars

thirty-one dollars

Question

Every Monday, Rajiv receives fifty percent off enchilada dinners that regularly cost twenty-eight dollars. Which of the following shows the amount Rajiv pays for the dinners if he tips the waiter seventeen percent of the regular price for the dinners? Assume no sales tax is added to his bill.

fifteen dollars and seventy cents

eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents

twenty-eight dollars

thirty-one dollars

anonymous · Answer

rajiv pays 28/2 + 0.17x28
=14+4.76
=18.76
percentage=100*18.76/28
=67%

anonymous · Answer

b

anonymous · Answer

28(.5) = 14 + .17(28) = $18.67
B