a restaurant serves a meal for 5.75 dollars the cost of ingredients

is 0.83 to the nearest tenth of a percent what percentage of the serving price is raw ingredients

1 answer

To determine what percentage of the serving price is represented by the cost of the raw ingredients, you can use the following formula:

\[ \text{Percentage of raw ingredients} = \left( \frac{\text{Cost of ingredients}}{\text{Serving price}} \right) \times 100 \]

Plugging in the values provided:

  • Cost of ingredients = \(0.83\) dollars
  • Serving price = \(5.75\) dollars

Now calculate:

\[ \text{Percentage of raw ingredients} = \left( \frac{0.83}{5.75} \right) \times 100 \]

Calculating this step by step:

  1. \( \frac{0.83}{5.75} \approx 0.1443\)
  2. \(0.1443 \times 100 \approx 14.43\)

Rounding \(14.43\) to the nearest tenth of a percent gives you \(14.4\).

Thus, to the nearest tenth of a percent, raw ingredients make up 14.4% of the serving price.