Question

Five friends went out to dinner. They each paid $13.75 for the meal, including a 7% sales tax. What was the total cost of the meal before the tax was added?

Answer 1

Answer:

For one meal each person paid 1.07 times the price of the meal (includes 7% tax).

Therefore price of each person's meal was 13.75/1.07 = $12.85

 

Total cost for all 5 meals was therefore $64.25--before taxes.  $68.75 including the taxes.