Question

The total bill for drinks and a pizza for three people is $14.90 before tax. The group wants to leave a 15% tip on the cost of the food, not including tax. What will be the amount of the tip?

Answer 1

$2.24

Explanation:

Since we are trying to find a percentage of something, we can multiply whatever we're trying to find a percentage from by 0.X where X is equal to the number of the percentage. So in this case it's 15%. We can multiply $14.90 by 0.15 and we get 2.23500. Since we cannot have 2.235 dollars, we must round up decimal places.

The tip would be 2 dollars and 24 cents. ($2.24).