The Tip Is $70?
Two diners compute a $70 tip on a $32 meal, and one suggests a sign error means the restaurant owes them.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-01-11-the-tip-is-70/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[At a restaurant] A: "So the tip is… $70? But the meal was only $32…" B: "Maybe we made a sign error, and they owe us $70."