math word problems, math homework help

math word problems, math homework help

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1. Golden age retirement planners specializes in providing financial advice for people planning for a comfortable retirement. The company offers seminars on the important topic of retirement planning. For a typical seminar, the room rental at a hotel is $1,000, and the cost of advertising and other incidentals is about $10,000 per seminar. The cost of the materials and special girts for each attendee is $60 per person attending the seminar. The company charges $250 per person to attend the seminar as this seems to be competitive. with other companies in the same business. How many people must attend each seminar for golden age to break even?

2. A couple of entrepreneurial business students at State University decided to put their education into practice by developing a tutoring company for business students. While private tutoring was offered, it was determined that group tutoring before tests in the large statistics classes would be most beneficial. The students rented a room close to campus for $300 for 3 hours. They developed handouts based on past tests, and these handouts (including color graphs) cost $5 each. The tutor was paid $25 per hour, for a total of $75 for each tutoring session.

(a) If students are charged $20 to attend the session, how many students must enroll for the company to break even?

(b) A somewhat smaller room is available for $200 for 3 hours. The company is considering this possibility. How would this affect the break-even point?