Hotel Room Revenue Maximization
XAT 2025 · Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation · Medium · Arithmetic
There are 25 rooms in a hotel. Each room can accommodate at the most three people. For each room, the single occupancy charge is Rs. 2000 per day, the double occupancy charge is Rs. 3000 per day, and the triple occupancy charge is Rs. 3500 per day. If there are 55 people staying in the hotel today, what is the maximum possible revenue from room occupancy charges today?
- A.
Rs. 72500
- B.
Rs. 82500
- C.
Rs. 77500
- D.
Rs. 92500
- E.
Rs. 87500
C
Explanation
Let be the number of single, double, and triple occupancy rooms used, respectively. We have and . Subtracting the first equation from the second gives , so . Substituting into gives . Since , we must have . To maximize revenue : . To maximize , we need to minimize . The minimum non-negative value for such that is . Then and . Maximum Revenue = .
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