Need math help with %'s

[Paintergeek]

Ok, This came up when I was trying to figure out how to send X amount of money, and after losing 3%, having it come out to $20.00. This led to the following question on the same concept:

Your total bill is $1,058.30. The tax was 4%. How much of the bill was tax? I know the answer, I need to know HOW to get there. Thanks.

[Ankf00]

x*1.04=1058.30

x=1058.30/1.04

you're welcome. :)


(the original amount multiplied by 1.04 accounts for the original amount with the extra 4% tax...)


(waiting to find out I f'ed up simple math and having everyone laugh at me.)

[dando]

(waiting to find out I f'ed up simple math and having everyone laugh at me.)

Nope, but you might add that $1058.30 - x = y :)

Oh, and you can put yer shoes back on now. :gomer:

-Kevin

[devilmaster]

:laugh: <--- at ank

He asked how much of the bill was tax.....

you missed a step ,ank

1058.30 - (1058.30/1.04) = total amount of tax

[racer2c]

I counted on my fingers the other night figuring out the tip on my bar tab. :)

[devilmaster]

I counted on my fingers the other night figuring out the tip on my bar tab. :)

I figure out the tip on my bar tab by how good looking she is, and how well she served me. ;)

[Paintergeek]

x*1.04=1058.30

x=1058.30/1.04

you're welcome. :)


(the original amount multiplied by 1.04 accounts for the original amount with the extra 4% tax...)


(waiting to find out I f'ed up simple math and having everyone laugh at me.)





Sweet, Thanks. I was actually coming in hoping noone had replied yet cause I FINALLY figured it out. Im 'helping' my wife study for her finals (which is like your 5 year old 'helping' you bake a cake), and I havent done this stuff in 12 or 14 years, and sucked at it back then.

Luckily, the magic of the internet eventually found the formula I needed, but thanks for spelling it out and answering my question.

[devilmaster]

Sweet, Thank.

Don't thank him! he got it wrong!

Dang engineers can't read the instructions properly! Sometimes I wonder how anything flies, drives or works in this world...... ;)

[Sean O'Gorman]

Well, at least his post was halfway coherant for once. :p

[nrc]

Coming soon:

Drunk math
Drunk home improvement
Drunk hair removal

[Dr. Corkski]

Well, at least his post was halfway coherant for once. :pHis posts might actually be more readable in l33tspeak. :gomer:

[Ankf00]

Coming soon:

Drunk math
Drunk home improvement
Drunk hair removal

errr, #1 and 3 have been released on home video already, #2 will have to wait till I get a home in 2 years :gomer:

[Ankf00]

Don't thank him! he got it wrong!

Dang engineers can't read the instructions properly! Sometimes I wonder how anything flies, drives or works in this world...... ;)

dude, seriously, sometimes at work I wonder how any of our **** flies too.... :eek:

[Ankf00]

Well, at least his post was halfway coherant for once. :p

dude, don't pretend you understand numbers, there's no folgers exhaust can stapled onto my math :gomer:

[RaceGrrl]

:rofl:

[Wheel-Nut]

http://www.webmath.com/

[FTG]

Im 'helping' my wife study for her finals

I did this kind of math in Grade nine. Are you related to Jerry Lee Lewis?

[G.]

Coming soon:

Drunk home improvement
Oh, Oh, Oh! Let me moderate!

I am the l33t hax0r of drunk home improvement!

You have not lived until you stood at the top of a ladder with a nail gun in your hand and said to yourself, "No."

Wife asks why you stopped, mumble something about not wanting to wake the kids.

[racer2c]

I did this kind of math in Grade nine. Are you related to Jerry Lee Lewis?

Me too, but my eighth grade daughter is taking pre cal. At 37, I remember the very basics. Every kid laughs at why they need advanced math, the answer is...when you go back to school. :gomer:

[Paintergeek]

I did this kind of math in Grade nine. Are you related to Jerry Lee Lewis?


Its called going back to school 12 years after graduating HS, and being forced to take a bunch of pre-requisite (sp?) crap before you can get to your major. My wife graduated HS early w/honors, and aced math the whole way, but after 12 years, a wedding, and two kids, You forget some stuff. At least WE did.

[racer2c]

Its called going back to school 12 years after graduating HS, and being forced to take a bunch of pre-requisite (sp?) crap before you can get to your major. My wife graduated HS early w/honors, and aced math the whole way, but after 12 years, a wedding, and two kids, You forget some stuff. At least WE did.

My wife and I went through the same thing a couple of years ago.

[Ankf00]

My wife and I went through the same thing a couple of years ago.

pffff, you were just sniffing too much methanol fumes :gomer:

[racer2c]

pffff, you were just sniffing too much methanol fumes :gomer:

So that's what it is! :)

[oddlycalm]

Oh, Oh, Oh! Let me moderate!

I am the l33t hax0r of drunk home improvement! Good idea, truebrit is off moderating drunken politics. There's a certain symmetry.

oc

[anait]

I am the l33t hax0r of drunk home improvement!


Awww, I wanna be the something of home improvement!!! :cry: :rofl:

Except I don't really know what G. just said he is...dang, where's the link to that website? It's in a thread here somewhere... :D