Stan took lily to his friends restaurant on a date the friend told the waiter to remove the 12.00 desert from Stan’s bill Stan tipped the waiter 20% on the reduced bill which was a 15.00 tip fill in the blanks to write an equation that will determine the amount of the original bill

Answer 1

Let \( x \) represent the original bill amount. The 12.00 dessert was removed from this bill, so the reduced bill is:

\[ x - 12.00 \]

Stan tipped 20% on the reduced bill, which can be expressed as:

\[ 0.20 \times (x - 12.00) \]

According to the problem, this tip amounts to 15.00. Therefore, we can write the equation:

\[ 0.20 \times (x - 12.00) = 15.00 \]

This is the equation that will determine the amount of the original bill \( x \).