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A lunch bill comes to $14.40 and the customer wants to leave a 15% tip. How much should the tip be?Read the answer and worked solution →A worker has 12% of every paycheck deposited straight into savings. The latest paycheck was $2,165. How much went into savings?Read the answer and worked solution →A tenant earns $3,000 per month and pays $750 a month in rent. What percent of the monthly pay goes to rent?Read the answer and worked solution →A packaged brownie is listed at 190 calories, with 70 of those calories from fat. To the nearest whole percent, what percent of the calories come from fat?Read the answer and worked solution →A city bus fare rose from $1.50 in 1995 to $2.25 in 2008. What was the percent increase in the fare?Read the answer and worked solution →A city's population fell from about 951,000 in 2000 to about 714,000 in 2010. Rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent, what was the percent decrease?Read the answer and worked solution →A winter coat costs $250 in a city where the sales tax rate is 8.2% of the purchase price. How much sales tax is charged?Read the answer and worked solution →A television sells for $724 where the sales tax rate is 6.25% of the purchase price. What total amount does the buyer pay at the register?Read the answer and worked solution →A new car is priced at $26,525, and the dealer adds $2,387.25 in sales tax. What is the sales tax rate?Read the answer and worked solution →A travel agent earns 7% commission on every cruise booked. How much commission does a $3,900 cruise booking earn?Read the answer and worked solution →A salesperson received $1,140 commission for selling a car priced at $28,500. What rate of commission was paid?Read the answer and worked solution →A barbecue grill with an original price of $395 is discounted 65%. What is the sale price?Read the answer and worked solution →An air conditioner with an original price of $400 sells on sale for $340. What is the discount rate?Read the answer and worked solution →A music store buys a guitar at a wholesale price of $1,200 and marks the price up 50%. What is the list price of the guitar?Read the answer and worked solution →How much simple interest is earned on $800 invested for 4 years at an interest rate of 5%?Read the answer and worked solution →A saver puts $36,000 in a bank account paying 6.5% interest. How much simple interest does the account earn in 3 years?Read the answer and worked solution →A brother lends his sister $5,000. Three years later she repays the $5,000 plus $900 in interest. What annual rate of simple interest did she pay?Read the answer and worked solution →Over 5 years, a bank account earned $2,400 of simple interest at a rate of 5%. How much had been deposited in the account?Read the answer and worked solution →An investor puts $4,500 into an account paying 1.9% annual interest and leaves it for 8 months. How much simple interest is earned?Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the money formulasRead the answer and worked solution →Pick the bigger amountRead the answer and worked solution →

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A lunch bill comes to $14.40 and the customer wants to leave a 15% tip. How much should the tip be?

  1. $2.16
  2. $1.44
  3. $2.88
  4. $2.06
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Correct answer: A. $2.16

1. Change 15% to a decimal: 0.15. 2. Multiply the decimal by the bill: 0.15 x 14.40. 3. This gives 2.16, so the tip should be $2.16. 4. $1.44 is a 10% tip and $2.88 is a 20% tip, so neither matches the 15% asked for. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Percents", section 6.2 Solve General Applications of Percent_

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A worker has 12% of every paycheck deposited straight into savings. The latest paycheck was $2,165. How much went into savings?

  1. $216.50
  2. $259.80
  3. $249.80
  4. $269.80
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Correct answer: B. $259.80

1. Change 12% to a decimal: 0.12. 2. Multiply the decimal by the paycheck: 0.12 x 2,165. 3. This gives 259.80, so $259.80 went into savings. 4. $216.50 is only 10% of the paycheck, the slip that comes from moving the decimal point without using the actual rate. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Percents", section 6.2 Solve General Applications of Percent_

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A tenant earns $3,000 per month and pays $750 a month in rent. What percent of the monthly pay goes to rent?

  1. 20%
  2. 22%
  3. 25%
  4. 30%
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Correct answer: C. 25%

1. The rent is the part and the monthly pay is the whole. 2. Divide the part by the whole: 750 divided by 3,000. 3. This gives 0.25. 4. Move the decimal point two places to the right and add a percent sign: 25%. 5. 30% would be $900 of rent and 20% would be $600, so both fail a quick check against the actual $750. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Percents", section 6.2 Solve General Applications of Percent_

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