(Will medal + fan) Use operations of decimal, fraction, and percent numbers and your models from Part (b) to solve the following application problems. In your final answer, include all of the necessary calculations.

2. A family dines in a popular franchise restaurant. They plan to use a coupon that will give them a discount of 15% off of their total dinner bill, not including applicable sales tax or their server’s tip. If the family’s dinner bill totaled $34.00 before tax and tip, how much money will they save by using the coupon?

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(Will medal + fan) Use operations of decimal, fraction, and percent numbers and your models from Part (b) to solve the following application problems. In your final answer, include all of the necessary calculations.

2. A family dines in a popular franchise restaurant. They plan to use a coupon that will give them a discount of 15% off of their total dinner bill, not including applicable sales tax or their server’s tip. If the family’s dinner bill totaled $34.00 before tax and tip, how much money will they save by using the coupon?

oliviadaae · Answer

You're going to want to take the bill's total and multiply it by the decimal equivalent to your coupon's percentage.  If you take 34*.15, you end up with the discount amount being $5.10.