<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>What you say below mathmatically will not give you what you are thinking verbally.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"28.05 X 15%" might give you 4.2075, but what we want is "28.05 plus 15% OF 28.05"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 27, 2005, at 10:31 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">To me it's more logical to do it as "28.05 X 15%." That gives me 4.2075.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">That way, the calculator knows what it's taking 15% of. If I were adding</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">a tip to a restaurant check, I would calculate the total as "28.05 X 115%."</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>