Finding an Original Amount

Mason gave the waiter a $14.58 tip, which was 15 percent of the dinner bill. What was the amount of the dinner bill before he added the tip?

$97.20

Mrs. Chin paid a 20 percent tip on the bill for lunch.

B.$13.75

Mrs. Rodriguez wants to pay her restaurant bill which is $24.00. A 6% tax is added by the waitress. If Mrs. Rodriguez wants to leave a 20% tip on the total including the tax, how much should she pay?

C.$30.53

Felipe used a 40 percent off coupon on a single item at the craft store which saved him $16.42. What would the item have cost if he had not used the coupon?

C.$41.05

Janice earns a 4 percent commission for the medical equipment that she sells. If she earned $1,823.94 in commission on the digital x-ray machine that she sold, what was the cost of the machine?

C.$45,598.50

Iliana signed up for a store credit card with no annual fee to get a discount of 12.5 percent off her entire first purchase.

C.$58.32

The price of a laptop was marked 80 percent off because it had a cracked screen.

C.25 percent B because 20 percent is 1/5 of 100.

Yasmin bought several items at the discount store. She paid 8.75 percent sales tax, an amount of $4.59, on the total amount of her purchase. What was the total amount of her purchase before tax was added?

Not A. B.52.46 because you must multiply 8.75 times 10 and get 97.5 then multiply 4.59 by 10 and get 45.9. Then estimate it and add the rest of the money left and get 52.46.

Which scenario is modeled by the equation (x)(0.6) = $86.46?

Not C. A picnic table is on sale for 60 percent off. The original price of the picnic table is x, $144.10. It's A because it is on sale for 60 percent and you sale the price of the picnic table not the original price before tax.

A pizza restaurant sells containers of juice that it marks up 75 percent above its wholesale cost. If the restaurant marks up each container by $0.90, how much does the restaurant pay for each container of juice wholesale?

Not D.$1.58 C.1.20