Hello!
To answer your question we need to follow these steps:
- First we will need to subtract the $6 tip from the total of the meal, as a tip is added AFTER tax is applied.
- Once we subtract 6 from 45.42 we are given 39.42 as our price with tax.
- The next step is divide 39.42 by 1.08 , or 8%
- This gives us the total of $36.50 before tax.
- We will then subtract the price of the fries from out total before tax, giving us the equation $36.50 - $5.00 which gives us a total of $31.50
- Our last step, is to divide this amount by 3 to find the cost of 1 sandwich.
- $31.50/3= $10.50
If you have followed these steps correctly you will find that the cost of one sandwich is $10.50!