Question

A senior class of 420 students will rent buses and vans for a class trip. Each bus can transport 50 students and 3 chaperones and costs $1200 to rent. Each van can transport 10 students and 1 chaperone and costs $100 to rent. There are 36 chaperones available (so they can't all go in vans). How many vehicles of each type should be rented in order to minimize the cost

Answer 1

Answer:

37 buses and 1 van.

Step-by-step explanation:

The cost to rent a van is $1200 for 50 students and 3 chaperones, while a bus for 10 students and a chaperone is $100 .

The cost of renting buses for 50 students is $500

What we do is rent 37 buses and 1 van

37 buses will take in 370 students with empty 2 spaces in 2 buses for chaperones since the chaperones are 36.

Then rent 1 van to take in 50 students and 1 chaperone.

The total cost here will be

$3700 + $1200 = $ 4900

This will help to safe cost.