SOLUTION: A customer at a restaurant paid a waitress a certain amount for the food plus a 20% tip of the food cost. The customer paid a total amount of $24.00. How much did the food cost? Ho

Question 1202941: A customer at a restaurant paid a waitress a certain amount for the food plus a 20% tip of the food cost. The customer paid a total amount of $24.00. How much did the food cost? How much money represented the 20% tip?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Easier to take a variable as the main cost before applying the 20% tip.

, for cost of the food, p.

-----------food's cost

Question asks for of the $20, which is $4.
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