Nakhle Kennel Uses Tenant-Days as Its Measure of Activity; an Animal

question 135

Multiple Choice

Nakhle Kennel uses tenant-days as its measure of activity; an animal housed in the kennel for one day is counted as one tenant-day. During October, the kennel budgeted for 3,000 tenant-days, but its actual level of activity was 2,960 tenant-days. The kennel has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for October:

Data used in budgeting:
Actual results for October:
-The net operating income in the planning budget for October would be closest to:

• A)$2,757
• B)$9,500
• C)$2,684
• D)$9,900

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Definitions:

Expression

A combination of symbols and numbers that represents a mathematical computation or quantity.

Distributive Property

A property indicating that the multiplication of a number by a sum is equal to the sum of the individual multiplications, represented as \(a(b + c) = ab + ac\).

Additive Inverse Property

A principle stating that for any real number, there exists another real number that, when added together, equals zero.

Distributive Property

A property indicating that multiplying a sum by a number gives the same result as multiplying each addend by the number and then adding the products.