Question

can anyone help tech me how to solve for tax and tip. im going to 6th grade and trying to get into the advanced group but I don't know tax and tip. plz help. out of the goodness of yalls hearts

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Okay, here's my best try.

Suppose you have a bill for $8.45

If you are asked to add, say, 8% tax, you must calculate 8 percent of 8.45 and then add it to 8.45.

Begin by converting 8% to decimals by dividing by 100.

$\frac{8}{100}=0.08$ 8% is 0.08 in decimal form.

To calculate a percentage of a number, you multiply the decimal percent by the number; example:

$0.08(8.45)$ 8.45 is being multiplied by 0.08. The result is: 0.676. (this is the tax; however you have to round up to two decimal places: $0.68)

After finding the tax amount, if you are asked to add it to the bill, you have to add it to the original bill; in this case, $8.45

This would be: 0.68+8.45=9.13.

Therefore, the total bill after tax is for $9.13

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With tips is the same thing, however, you can have 2 situations.

Situation 1: You are asked to calculate 15% tip of total bill.

In this situation, you can do the same we do to calculate tax.

Convert the percentage to decimal by dividing by 100.

$\frac{15}{100}=0.15$

and multiply it by the original bill.

$0.15(8.45)=1.2675$. Rounding up, this would be $1.27 for tip.

If you were to add it to the original bill, simply sum.

$8.45+1.27=9.72$

The total bill after tips is for $9.72

Situation 2: You are asked to calculate 15% tip of the total bill with a tax of 8% included.

In this situation, you must first calculate the total bill with the tax added, like we did above; we got a bill for $9.13 (Tax included)

Then you can calculate 15% tip of this new bill that has tax included.

Convert

$\frac{15}{100}=0.15$

Multiply by the new bill (because this is the one that includes tax)

$0.15(9.13)=1.3695$ Round up.... $1.37 for tips.

If you are asked to give a total amount of money including tax and tips, add this to the bill.

9.13+1.37=10.50

This bill would be for $10.50