Question

During the 31-day month of May, a tuxedo shop rents a different number of tuxedos each day, including a store-record 55 tuxedos on May 23rd. Assuming that the shop had an unlimited inventory of tuxedos to rent, what is the maximum number of tuxedos the shop could have rented during May?

Answer 1

The answer is 1240

Explanation:

We know that tuxedo shop rents different number of tuxedos each day and at max they rented 55 tuxedos in May. To maximize the number of tuxedos that rented, rented number of tuxedos need to be drop down by 1 for each day. So minimum 25 tuxedos were rented in May. To find the maximum number of tuxedos that rented in May, we need to add all numbers with using the formula for adding consecutive numbers.

`Total = ((55+25)/2)*31=1240`