Question

Solve each word problem using either method.

1.
Your parents took your family out to dinner. Your parents wanted to give the waiter a 15% tip. If
the total amount of the dinner was $42.00, what should be paid to the waiter as a tip?
PLEASE HELP

Answer 1

The answer is $6.80

Answer 2

it should be $6.30

Explanation:

i put it in 2 different ways:

42x.15 and 42x15% both gave me 6.3