Roadside Tours and Travel Agency made a booking at a guesthouse for 36 work colleagues to attend a conference in Upington. the guesthouse offers rooms with 2 beds and 4 beds for ac... Roadside Tours and Travel Agency made a booking at a guesthouse for 36 work colleagues to attend a conference in Upington. the guesthouse offers rooms with 2 beds and 4 beds for accommodation. ANNEXURE A shows an invoice that Roadside Tours and Travel Agency received from the guesthouse. The total amount for accommodation and meals were paid for in advance. Use ANNEXURE A and the information above to answer the questions that follow: Write down the address of the guesthouse. The accommodation cost includes 15% VAT. Determine (excluding VAT) the price for a person per night in a 2-bed room. Calculate the missing value C, the total for the 4-bed room. Determine (in simplified form) the ratio of the number of guests booked in the 2-bed rooms to the number of guests booked in the 4-bed rooms. Two work colleagues who booked the 2-bed rooms cancelled as follows: One cancelled at 11:00, while the other one cancelled at 15:00 on the check-in date. Their meal cost will be fully refunded, while the accommodation costs will be refunded according to the conditions of the cancellation policy stated in ANNEXURE A. The tour operator stated that the refund would be less than R2 500. Verify, showing ALL calculations, whether this statement is CORRECT.
Understand the Problem
The prompt presents a word problem involving a booking made by Roadside Tours and Travel Agency at a guesthouse. There are multiple sub-questions (2.1.1 to 2.1.5) that require the use of given information and potentially an invoice (ANNEXURE A, which is not provided) to determine amounts, ratios, and verify a statement about a refund amount.
Answer
2.1.1: Cannot be determined. 2.1.2: Cannot be determined. 2.1.3: Cannot be determined. 2.1.4: $6/13$ 2.1.5: Cannot be verified.
Answer for screen readers
2.1.1: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.2: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.3: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.4: 6/13 2.1.5: Cannot be verified without ANNEXURE A
Steps to Solve
- Address of the guesthouse
Since ANNEXURE A (the invoice) is not provided, we cannot determine the address of the guesthouse. Therefore, we cannot answer question 2.1.1.
- Price per person per night in a 2-bed room (excluding VAT)
Since ANNEXURE A is not provided, we cannot determine the price per person per night in a 2-bed room, excluding VAT. Therefore, we cannot answer question 2.1.2.
- Calculate the missing value C, the total for the 4-bed room
Since ANNEXURE A is not provided, we cannot calculate the missing value C. Therefore, we cannot answer question 2.1.3.
- Ratio of guests in 2-bed rooms to 4-bed rooms
The ratio of the number of guests booked in 2-bed rooms to the number of guests booked in 4-bed rooms is given as 6/13. This means that for every 6 guests in 2-bed rooms, there are 13 guests in 4-bed rooms.
- Verify if the refund is less than R2 500
Since ANNEXURE A is not provided, specifically the cancellation policy, we cannot determine the refund amount for accommodation. We also do not know the meal costs per person to determine the refund for meals. Therefore, we cannot verify whether the statement is correct.
2.1.1: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.2: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.3: Cannot be determined without ANNEXURE A 2.1.4: 6/13 2.1.5: Cannot be verified without ANNEXURE A
More Information
Without Annexure A, most of the sub-questions cannot be answered.
Tips
- Trying to guess the values from the context instead of using the provided (but missing) Annexure A.
- Incorrectly interpreting the ratio in 2.1.4.
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