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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For a bill of 15.73, move the decimal over once to the left. You get 1.57. (drop the 3). That's ten percent. Let's say it's 1.50.

Half of that is 75ยข. Half of ten percent is five percent so now you have ten percent and five percent. Add them together to get 15%: 1.50 + 0.75 = $2.25 = 15% tip.

20% is even easier. If ten percent is 1.50, twenty percent is double that: $3.00

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Also if u know what sales tax is in ur state u can double it. It's 8% I believe in Cali, so I double to 16% and then feels math it up or down

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I literally can't read that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively, pressing 0 can be quite easy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can calculate 0% of anything in my head quite quickly. Try me.