Money Moral Dilemma: What's the fairest way to split our taxi fare? 26 February 2019 at 7:35PM in Public transport & cycling 38 replies 16.4K views

Dean000000

Pay it 100% yourself, and tell your mate that next ones on them....

Life be too short to quibble over £9 (or variables thereof)

LesleyJP

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.

elsien

If they're that hard up for cash they're not going to be getting regular taxis home after nights out.

ellendexter

£7.50 and £10.50. Adds up to £18 and you're both saving the same amount of £5.50

TheOhGodOfHangovers

Half each. You are both still saving money.

Ldawson52

Just split 50/50. You’re supposed to be friends and you’re both gaining so don’t spoil a friendship for £1 or £2 pounds.

REJP

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?

Videostar

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.

suejb2

ellendexter wrote: »

£7.50 and £10.50. Adds up to £18 and you're both saving the same amount of £5.50

We seem outnumbered with this, I agree this is a fair split. As a P.S I don’t tip.

bye_bye_band_G

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!