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1prettyythinggg:
food bill before tax: $62 Sales tax: 8 Tip: 15
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AcornTheNut:
what are you trying to solve for? the overall cost?
1prettyythinggg:
yea
@acornthenut wrote:
what are you trying to solve for? the overall cost?
AcornTheNut:
alright gimme a sec
AcornTheNut:
so first you gotta divide the sales tax by 100
AcornTheNut:
which gets you 0.08
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AcornTheNut:
you then gotta multiply that by the food bill before the sales tax (62 x 0.08)
AcornTheNut:
which gets you the tax amount
AcornTheNut:
which is 4.96
AcornTheNut:
so you add that onto 62 (62+4.96)
AcornTheNut:
so then the tip is easy you just do 66.96 + 15
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AcornTheNut:
which gets you the answer $81.96
AcornTheNut:
so the overall cost for the food with the tip is $81.96
AcornTheNut:
(i might've sold)
AcornTheNut:
u should probably have someone check over my work cuz I'm kinda dumb,,,
1prettyythinggg:
Thank u
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AcornTheNut:
no problem
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Thank u
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