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

directrix · Answer

Assumption: the problem asks about the cost of the dinner on a Monday

Enchilda on Monday: $14 @ half-price cost

directrix · Answer

17% of 28 
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% means hundredths so 17% is 17/100 = .17

directrix · Answer

Monday cost of Enchilda meal: 14  + .17*28 = ?

anonymous · Answer

so its  18.76?

directrix · Answer

That is what I got.