I'm going to be nice and assume the person asking is a student, when every penny does matter, and they're trying to budget for maybe the first time. I'd go £8/£10, but would discuss with the friend before getting in the taxi and explain you're both saving a fiver or so.
As usual, insufficient information.
Is this a male/female friendship where the male has bought meal and shared cost of drinks?
Is it 2 same sex friends who share everything equally?
By splitting cost equally both get a cheaper ride home.
I agree with people who suggest £10 each which includes tip.
If you cannot agree on such a trivial matter, you need to reassess your friendship.
Can we please have some sensible questions with full information in future?
I think a straight split of £9 each but give your friend a tenner which includes the tip. They can also stump up £10 (including tip) and then you both win on cost.
esuhl's algebra is correct, I did it myself before seeing someone else had and got the same answer, accurately £8.07 and £9.93. Or rounded to £8 and £10.
It works because those figures maintain the same ratio of 13:16 for the new £18 fare.
But I did it mainly because I quite like a maths problem to keep my aging brain cells ticking over!
In real life it doesn't really work like that and for the sake of a 93p per journey saving I'd be the nice friend and say just split it £9 each. The popular guy does not explain they used algebra to work out a correctly ratio'd split of the £18 taxi fare!
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Life be too short to quibble over £9 (or variables thereof)
Is this a male/female friendship where the male has bought meal and shared cost of drinks?
Is it 2 same sex friends who share everything equally?
By splitting cost equally both get a cheaper ride home.
I agree with people who suggest £10 each which includes tip.
If you cannot agree on such a trivial matter, you need to reassess your friendship.
Can we please have some sensible questions with full information in future?
We seem outnumbered with this, I agree this is a fair split. As a P.S I don’t tip.
It works because those figures maintain the same ratio of 13:16 for the new £18 fare.
But I did it mainly because I quite like a maths problem to keep my aging brain cells ticking over!
In real life it doesn't really work like that and for the sake of a 93p per journey saving I'd be the nice friend and say just split it £9 each. The popular guy does not explain they used algebra to work out a correctly ratio'd split of the £18 taxi fare!