Questions: Steve decided to invite friends over to watch the football game and ordered pizzas. The total bill was 50.81, and he gave the driver a 15% tip. Step 1 of 2: What amount did he give the driver as a tip? Follow the problem-solving process (The short method for calculating 15% tip should be used.) and round your answer to the nearest cent if necessary.

Steve decided to invite friends over to watch the football game and ordered pizzas. The total bill was 50.81, and he gave the driver a 15% tip.
Step 1 of 2: What amount did he give the driver as a tip? Follow the problem-solving process (The short method for calculating 15% tip should be used.) and round your answer to the nearest cent if necessary.

Transcript text: Steve decided to invite friends over to watch the football game and ordered pizzas. The total bill was $\$ 50.81$, and he gave the driver a $15 \%$ tip. Step 1 of 2: What amount did he give the driver as a tip? Follow the problem-solving process (The short method for calculating $15 \%$ tip should be used.) and round your answer to the nearest cent if necessary.

Solution

Solution Steps

To find the tip amount Steve gave to the driver, we need to calculate 15% of the total bill. This can be done by multiplying the total bill amount by 0.15. Finally, we round the result to the nearest cent.

Step 1: Calculate the Tip Amount

To find the tip amount, we calculate $15\%$ of the total bill. The total bill is $\$50.81$. Therefore, the tip amount is calculated as follows:

\[ \text{Tip Amount} = 0.15 \times 50.81 = 7.6215 \]

Step 2: Round the Tip Amount

The tip amount needs to be rounded to the nearest cent. Thus, we round $7.6215$ to two decimal places:

\[ \text{Rounded Tip Amount} = 7.62 \]