Convert 12% into a decimal by dividing 12 by 100 to get 0.12. To find 12% of 7.99, multiply it by 0.12. However, since we want to know the total cost of the meal after the markup, an eaiser way is to multiply 7.99 x 1.12 (the 1 represents the original price of meal, since we are adding on to it). This is the more effective way to solve this, but another way would just be to take the result of 7.99 x 0.12 and add it to 7.99.
Note that the actual answer is 8.9488, but I rounded to the nearest hundreth.
