Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming

Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tips are easy. You move the decimal point (10%) and double (20%). Or find 10%, half of 10% is 5% and add that 5% to whatever 10% was for a 15% tip. And fudge the numbers to make the math easier when it makes sense to, it’s a tip not a math test.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re going to far. 0% of any sum is 0

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  • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way I do it. Often I just divide by ten and multiply by two, but I’m a generous tipper, and it’s one less head math step.

    The funny thing is that this basically how common core math works: get to the answer by doing as much easy math as possible.

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    • VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Another method: tax is 8%, so double that as a baseline and adjust from there.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are you guys talking about? Tip is just rounding up to banknotes-only. €37.25? You pay 2x€20.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Easy for you to say! You don’t have scrambled eggs for brains. 😜

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