Question

A cruise ship charges $125 per night for a room. There are 250 rooms on the ship. If every room on the ship is booked, how much money does the cruise ship make in a single night?

Answer 1

The cruise ship makes `$31,250.`

Explanation:

Let the cruise ship's profit by represented by `P` and the amount of rooms booked be represented by `r.` We can represent this by the equation

`P=125r`, as we're told that each room `r` costs `$125`.

So, if there are `250` rooms booked, the we simply plug in `r=250` into the above equation for the profit:

`P=125(250)=31250`

The cruise ship makes `$31,250.`