Question

Peter works in the Spring Roll restaurant. He earns $15.50 per hour plus tips of 15% of food sales. If Peter works 35 hours this week and has $4000 of food sales, how much does he earn in total?

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Tips =
Total earnings =

Answer 1

You just need to multiply $15.50 with 35 giving us $542.50. Now you need to multiply $4,000 with 0.15 giving us $600, then you add both sums to get $1,152.50