Question

Drake wants to save $750 so that he can take a class on computer analysis for cars. The class is being held on various dates over the next several months. Drake is planning to take the class 6 weeks from now, so he plans to save $125 each week.

Unfortunately, Drake had to take out a little money from his savings in the 3rd week. After 4 weeks, Drake has $470. He knows that he must adjust his plan in order to meet his goal. Drake came up with the following options:

Option A: Stay with saving the original amount each week but take the class a week later than originally planned.

Option B: Increase the amount of money he saves each week by $15 from his original plan.

Answer 1

the correct answer is C both options will work in this scenario.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Drake can meet his $750 planned savings goal with either concept. After 4 weeks, he was $30 less than where he planned to be ($450 instead of $480). If he simply added $250 after two more weeks, he would be at $720 instead of $750, and would have to wait one more week to take the class. Conversely, if he added $15 to the next two weeks' savings, he would recoup the $30 he pulled out of the savings in those two weeks and would be back on the path to being able to take the course at the end of the 6-week period as originally planned.