Problema Solution
assume you need to prepare booklets on cardstock and go to the local office superstore to get it done. A ream of 250 sheets of cardstock cost $17.49, your document has 57 pages of text, you need 75 copies of the booklet made. At this volume, copies cost 7 cents per impression. Your booklet is double-sides ( printing on both sides of a sheet, thus 2 pages per sheet.)
Sales tax rate is 8.5%.
What will be the total price of the order?
Answer provided by our tutors
this problem statement is not explicitly clear on a few issues... we are making these assumptions:
1. 57-page booklet means 57 pages in the booklet and since the booklet has two-sided pages, each page of the booklet requires two impressions
2. a double-sided copy is usually cheaper but it appears that this superstore simply charges 7-cents per side and therefore one double-sided copy is going to cost 14-cents
3. producing one page of the booklet requires two impressions, therefore the cost per page of the booklet is 14-cents plus the price of the paper
4. finally, we assume that the customer is charged only for the amount of cardstock that is actually used and that $17.49 is not going to be the price of partially using one ream
75 copies of a 57-page, double-sided, booklet
75*57 = 4275 pages that are double-sided
cost of the cardstock:
17.49 * (4275/250)
cost of copying (7-cents per copy, we assume a double-sided copy costs 14-cents)
57*75*0.14
total cost of the order:
17.49 * (4275/250) + 57*75*0.14 + 0.085(17.49 * (4275/250) + 57*75*0.14) = 973.873
the total price of the order will be $973.87