Question

The Hu family goes out for lunch, and the price of the meal is $58. The sales tax on the meal is 7%, and the family also leaves a 20% tip on the pre-tax amount. What is the total cost of the meal?

Answer 1

58  plus tip of .20  

so

58 times 0.2 = 11.6 is the tip

now we add tax (Presuming we son't tax the tip)

58 times 0.07 = 4.06 the tax

so its

58 + 11.6  + 4.06  = $73.66 total cost