Question

joe is waiter at a local pizza parlor he usually get tips from the tables we work on.
write a formula that will help joe determine how much of a tip he'll recieve lets let
b=total bill
p=percent amount
t=amount of joes tips

Answer 1

Ok, so if b is the total bill, let's start off with that
b
Then we add on the percent amount that they're supposed to pay. We do p/100 because we need the percent to be in decimal form. Also, we put it in parentheses so that we'll know to do that first.
b*(p/100)
Then we add on the tips.
b*(p/100)=t