Question

Need hep teaching my daughter. Janet went to Resturant and left 20% tip. If tip was $3.20 how much was meal? Solve with equation

Answer 1

The meal was $16.00.

Explanation:

since the equation for finding the tip is: decimal of percent times total bill, what you want to do is isolate the bill. you do this by dividing both sides by percent and your equation is total cost = tip/percent

let's say our total equation is x.

x=3.20/0.2

x=16

Now check your work.