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Given$28.86 and 19 % tip ,how much should he pay ? round to the nearest cent

User Tuxedo Joe
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start by writing the payment as an equation taking into account that she has to pay 100% + 19%

make those pencetages as decimal numbers: 1 + 0.19

calculate the total cost


\begin{gathered} 28.86\cdot(1+0.19) \\ 28.86\cdot(1.19) \\ 34.34 \end{gathered}

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