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# Crystal made a budget for her vacation. If she traveled by plane, airf

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08 Mar 2019, 09:55
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Crystal made a budget for her vacation. If she traveled by plane, airfare would be 40 percent of the total budget, meals and lodging would be 50 percent, and miscellaneous expenses would be 10 percent. If she drove, transportation would cost 10 percent less than flying, and miscellaneous expenses would be the same. If Crystal wanted to travel by car and spend no more in total than if she flew, what is the maximum percentage by which she could increase the budget for meals and lodging?
A. 4%
B. 8%
C. 10%
D. 12
E. 20
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08 Mar 2019, 10:02
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Expense by AIR- Let Crystal have 100$for Air travel. Then, for Plane-40$; Meals and Lodging-50$; Miscellaneous-10$.
Expense by CAR
Travel = 10% less than Plane, i.e, 36$. Miscellaneous-10$ (Remains same)
Meals and lodging are 54$. Percentage increase = $$\frac{54-50}{50}*100$$ = 8%. B is the answer. _________________ Press +1 Kudo If my post helps! Manager Status: Manager Joined: 02 Nov 2018 Posts: 119 Location: Bangladesh Re: Crystal made a budget for her vacation. If she traveled by plane, airf [#permalink] ### Show Tags 08 Mar 2019, 10:06 1 The percentage breakdown of a budget is given for transportation, meals and lodging, and miscellaneous expenses. If transportation costs 10% less, more can be spent on meals and lodging while keeping total expenses the same. Since no amounts of money are given and the answer choices are percents, we pick$100 for the total budget.

If the total budget is $100, then the amount allocated to airfare would be 0.40 ×$100 = $40, and the amount for meals and lodging would be 0.50 ×$100 = $50. A 10% reduction in the first amount would be 0.10 ×$40 = $4. Reallocating that part of the budget to meals and lodging would allow for$50 + $4 =$54 to be spent on that category.
An increase of $4 from an original amount of$50 is
4/5×100% = 8%
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08 Mar 2019, 15:33
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Rubina11 wrote:
Crystal made a budget for her vacation. If she traveled by plane, airfare would be 40 percent of the total budget, meals and lodging would be 50 percent, and miscellaneous expenses would be 10 percent. If she drove, transportation would cost 10 percent less than flying, and miscellaneous expenses would be the same. If Crystal wanted to travel by car and spend no more in total than if she flew, what is the maximum percentage by which she could increase the budget for meals and lodging?
A. 4%
B. 8%
C. 10%
D. 12
E. 20
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Let total expense=100
then plane=40,meals+lodging=50 and misc=10

Now, 10% less than flying =36
misc. is same i.e. 10
==>meals+lodging=100-36-10=54

which is 4 more than previous 50, which is an 8% increase

Ans:B
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