Roberto takes his family to dinner at a local restaurant. The meal costs $96.50 before the 7% tax is added. Robert wants to leave a tip of at least 15%, but no more than 18%. He always calculates the tip on the cost of the food before the 7% tax is added which amount would not be possible total, in clouding the tip and taxes.

Question

A.117
B.118
C.119
D.120

Answer 1

First, we need to calculate the cost of the meal after adding the 7% tax:

$96.50 + ($96.50 x 0.07) = $103.51

Next, we need to calculate the minimum and maximum tip amounts based on Roberto's criteria:

Minimum tip: $96.50 x 0.15 = $14.48
Maximum tip: $96.50 x 0.18 = $17.37

Now we add the cost of the meal and the minimum and maximum tip amounts:

Cost of meal + minimum tip: $103.51 + $14.48 = $117.99
Cost of meal + maximum tip: $103.51 + $17.37 = $120.88

Since these totals both include the tax and tip, we need to round down to the nearest dollar to find the answer. Therefore, the correct answer is (C) 119.