Question

Joe is responsible for reserving hotel rooms for a company trip. His company changes plans and increases how many people are going on the trip, so they need at least 50 total rooms. Joe had already reserved and paid for 16 rooms, so he needs to reserve additional rooms. He can only reserve rooms in blocks, and each block contains 8 rooms and costs $900

Answer 1

He is going to pay 40*900= $36000 for the reservation

Explanation:

Step one:

We are told that they need at least 50 total rooms.

Joe has paid for 16 rooms since Joe can only reserve rooms in block, and a block has 8 rooms, then Joe has paid for 2 blocks.

There is a deficit of 50-16= 34rooms

Required

The Number of blocks Joe need to reserve in addition is 34/8

=4.25

The blocks can not be in decimal, so we need to approximate, which is 5 blocks

Therefore Joe is going to reserve 5*8= 40 rooms

He is going to pay 40*900= $36000 for the reservation