Question

Yasmine works as a server in a restaurant and earns different amounts in tips each night. Her mean earnings in tips over the course of 8 nights of work is $46. Following is a list of her tip earnings, with one missing:

$35.80, $79.60, $38.10, $20.50, $10.45, $96.78, $45.90, _____

What is the value of the missing tip earnings?(1 point)

Answer 1

Let the missing tip be x. The total of 8 nights is 8 × $46 = $368.

Sum of the given 7 tips = $35.80 + $79.60 + $38.10 + $20.50 + $10.45 + $96.78 + $45.90 = $327.13.

So x = $368 − $327.13 = $40.87.