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Your food bill at a restaurant is $60. The sales tax is 7% and you leave a 20% tip. What is the total cost of your meal?(Hint: both the sales tax and the tip are percentages of the original bill.)
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Your food bill at a restaurant is $60. The sales tax is 7% and you leave a 20% tip. What is the total cost of your meal?(Hint: both the sales tax and the tip are percentages of the original bill.)

User Borislav Ivanov
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you would take 60 times 7% which is 4.20 then take 60 times 20% which is 12 then just add everything together which then you get 76.20 . So your answer would be $76.20.
User Nimesh Nikum
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so what i did was take $60 and then add 7% and i got 60.07 then i subtracted the 20% from 60.07 and i got 59.87
Hope it help!
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