Department Budgeted Amount ($) Actual Amount Spent ($) Marketing 85,00

Question

Department   
   Budgeted Amount ($)   
   Actual Amount Spent ($)   
 
   Marketing  
  85,000  
  91,500  
 
   Operations  
  50,000  
  52,200  
 
   IT Support  
  3,200  
  3,000

The table shows the budgeted and actual expenses for three departments in a company. For which of these departments did the actual amount spent differ from the budgeted amount by more than 6% of the budgeted amount?

A. Marketing only
B. Operations only
C. IT Support only
D. Marketing and IT Support
E. Operations and IT Support

Utkarsha20 · Answer

6% of 8500 = 5100, on adding 5100+8500 we get 90100 and 91500 is more than that
6% of 5000 = 3000, 52,200 is less than 53000
6% of 3200 = 192 and 3000 is lesser than 3008 
So Marketing and IT is the answer (D)

tanvi0915 · Answer

Marketing Difference in budget and actual = 91500 - 85000 = 6500
% change = 6500 / 85000 *100 = 7.65% i.e more than 6%
Operations Difference in budget and actual = 52200 - 50000 = 2200
% change = 2200 / 50000 *100 = 4.4% i.e less than 6%
IT Difference in budget and actual = 3200 - 3000 = 200
% change = 200 / 3200 *100 = 6.25% i.e. more than 6%

Hence Answer is D

Department Budgeted Amount ($) Actual Amount Spent ($) Marketing 85,00

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Department	Budgeted Amount ($)	Actual Amount Spent ($)
Marketing	85,000	91,500
Operations	50,000	52,200
IT Support	3,200	3,000

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