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at a restaurant 6% tax on a meal comes to $1.56 how much is a 15% tip on that meal if it figured before taxes

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Ok so I'm assuming that $1.56 is 6% of the meal so 100% divided by 6 = 16.66

so 16.66 x 15% = $250.00

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$3.9. 1.59*5 would equal 30% tax / 2 = 15% which equals $3.90
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