Question

The Patel family threw a 100th birthday party for Grandma Patel. They saved

money and deposited $2.500.00 into a new party account. The family invited 200
people, but they only expected 100 guests to come. Each guest cost $20.50.
Instead of 100 guests, 144 guests came. When the Patels paid the bill, what was
their new account balance was

Answer 1

Explanation:

Ok so lets begin with what we know. Each guest is $20.50, 144 guests arrived, and they started with $2,500.

The equation would be 2,500-20.5(144)

20.5(144)=$2,952

Now the issue here is that the payment is more than the account balance and so im guessing either they want the answer as $0, they want the negative value which is -$452, or there was another part before this with the old account info.