A tip is a percent of the bill, left for good service. These free printable word-problem worksheets give a bill and a tip rate and ask how much the tip is — every answer a whole dollar.
If they get stuck
The answer key prints on a separate page.
A tip is the simplest of the percent applications: it IS the percent of the bill, with nothing added on afterward. That makes it the right place to start before tax and discount, which each do one more step. Finding a percent of a number, in a situation a child recognizes.
The reliable way in is one percent first, then the rate — one percent of a $40 bill is 40 cents, and a 15% tip is fifteen of those, $6 — but a child who knows 10% is a tenth can also take a shortcut a real diner uses. Both routes are fair game, and the answer key shows the percent-of-a-number one.
A restaurant bill comes to $260.
