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The silver town people went to a fancy restaurant after the big event Grammy gave the sever a 15$ tip if she was 20% cost of dinner how much was dinner ?? Please fast help
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The silver town people went to a fancy restaurant after the big event Grammy gave the sever a 15$ tip if she was 20% cost of dinner how much was dinner ?? Please fast help

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Okay, the only data in this you need to know is
15 = (20)/(100)x, where x is the total cost of dinner.
Multiply both sides by the reciprocal of the fraction on the right to find the solution. Therefore
x = (1500)/(20) =  75

$75
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The cost of the dinner was $75
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