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Restaurant Math Team K
Before You Start
At your new position as a server at a local café, you will earn tips from the customers you serve. As a server, you will take customers’ orders, deliver their food, and give them the checks for their orders.
The Hometown Café where you work has daily specials written on a whiteboard for customers to see as they enter the front door of the café.
Activity
Today’s specials are shown on the board at the right. Customers usually order daily specials by number.
1. The customers at Table 1 only ordered drinks. All six people ordered a fountain drink. Write an expression for the total of the drinks ordered at Table 1. What is the total of the order, excluding tax and tip?
2. The ticket at the right shows the orders from Table 2.
a. Write an expression for the total cost of the food ordered at Table 2, excluding tax and tip.
b. What is the total from part (a)?
3. The four people at Table 3 each ordered the #2 special. Three ordered bottled water and 1 ordered a fountain drink. Write an expression for the total cost of the food ordered at Table 3. What is the total bill for Table 3, excluding tax and tip?
4. Your customers should leave you a tip for service based on the total cost of their food orders.
a. How much was spent at Tables 1, 2, and 3, excluding tax and tip?
b. How much tip should you get from your customers if they leave you 15% of the total from part (a)?
5. The sales tax in your town is 5%. Sales tax is calculated on the total cost of the food order (excluding the tip). What is the amount of sales tax that must be added to the bill for each table?
a. Table 1 b. Table 2 c. Table 3
d. What is the total amount of sales tax collected from Tables 1, 2, and 3?
6. Quick Report Use your results from this activity to complete the report below. In each column, write the total amount you collected from Tables 1, 2, and 3 for each category.
|Cost of Food Ordered |Expected Tips |Sales Tax |
| | | |
7. Reflect Explain how you used each skill in this activity.
a. using order of operations
b. finding a percent of a number
1. 6(1.50); $9.00
2. a. 3(5.80) + 2(6.50) + 2(1.50) + 3(1.25)
b. $37.15
3. 4(6.50) + 3(1.25) + 1.50; $31.25
4. a. $77.40
b. $11.61
5. a. $0.45
b. $1.86
c. $1.56
d. $3.87
6.
|Cost of Food Ordered |Expected Tips |Sales Tax |
|$77.40 |$11.61 |$3.87 |
7. Answers may vary. Sample answers are given.
a. I used the order of operations to find the totals of the food ordered at each table.
b. I found the percent of a number when I calculated the tip for the total of the amount spent and when I found the sales tax for each table’s order.
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ANSWER KEY: Restaurant Math Team K
ANSWER KEY: Restaurant Math Team K
|Review Vocabulary |
|• order of operations |
|• percent |
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