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about 9 years

Dumd question... Why is it meal + meal?

Hi guys,

I finished the exercises without any issues but I don’t understand why it’s meal + meal?

meal = 44.50 tax = 0.0675 tip = 0.15

meal = meal + meal * tax total = meal + meal * tip

so this would mean mean = 44.50 + 44.50 * 0.0675

Answer 54dd4a6f95e378d9740006ec

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It is meal plus meal because its adding a percentage to something. For example when they add a 10 percent mark up to a par of pants the add the pants to 10 percent of the pants. this would be represented as pants + pants * .10.

I hope that helps.

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Submitted by Letmux
about 9 years

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Ooooooooooooooooh you exaplained it well, thanks. I was never good at math in school lol… thanks!

Screwhead28 about 9 years

Thanks, I was wondering the same thing. I feel that they should explain that in the lesson

S Cleaver about 9 years

Well I have tried copying it directly from the top posting and it will not work.

In math it would look like: meal = meal + (meal * tax)

Alex Reyes Leticia about 9 years

omg thanks for this it’s been bugging me for 2 days and I remembered that there is a forum questions available here.

Alex Reyes Leticia about 9 years

I think they should include this to the explanation.

Answer 5515ce9cd3292fd09f00003d

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order of operations makes the second number the tax

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Submitted by Jon Connors
about 9 years