Tax Tip and Discount

Percent Applications
Math 7

By Ms. Murphy

​Money the government collects based on income, sales, and other activities.  Sales tax is given in a percent, so you need to do a calculation to find the amount of tax paid.

TAX

​Money given to someone who provides a service. It is based on a percent of money spent, so you need to do a calculation to find the amount of a tip.

TIP

​A price reduction.  Sometimes given as a dollar amount OR in percent, such as a 10% discount.  When given a percent you need to do a calculation to find the price reduction.

DISCOUNT

Tax is a percentage of the original price that the government collects.

Tax is ADDED to the original price

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TAX

Multiple Choice

Tax is a percentage of the cost that is __________ to the total

• Added

• Subtracted

• Multiplied

• Divided

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an appropriate way to calculate tax

• Original + Tax

• Original - Tax

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is how you calculate the total cost with tax?

• Original + Tax

• Original + Tip

• Original - Discount

Tip is an amount given to someone in exchange for services. It is usually a percentage of the original price

Tip is ADDED to the original price

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TIP

Multiple Choice

Tip is a percentage of the cost that is __________ to the total

• Added

• Subtracted

• Multiplied

• Divided

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an appropriate way to calculate tip

• Original + Tip

• Original - Tip

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is how you calculate the total cost with tip?

• Original + Tax

• Original + Tip

• Original - Discount

Discount is a price reduction.  Sometimes given as a dollar amount OR in percent

Discount is SUBTRACTED from the original price

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DISCOUNT

Multiple Choice

Discount is ____________ from the price.

• added
• divided
• subtracted
• divided

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an appropriate way to calculate discount

• Original + Discount

• Original - Discount

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is how you calculate the total cost with discount?

• Original + Tax

• Original + Tip

• Original - Discount

Match

Match the following

• Calculating total with tax

• Calculating total with tip

• Calculating total with discount

• Which operation do you do with tax or tip?

• Which operation do you do with discount?

Original + Tax

Original + Tip

Original - Discount

addition

subtraction

• Original + Tax

• Original + Tip

• Original - Discount

• addition

• subtraction