Ellen and Bob went to Olive Garden for dinner. Ellen’s dinner costs $24.95 and Bob’s dinner costs $21.95. If they leave an 18% tip, what is the total cost of their dinner, including tip? (Round your answer to the nearest cent, and do not include the $ sign.)

55.34

Step-by-step explanation:

24.95 + 21.95 = 46.90

46.90 x 18%

18% = .18

46.90 x 18 = 8.442

8.44 = cost of tip

8.44 + 46.90 = 55.34

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )