Chapter 2, Problem 3PE

The Excel file President’s Inn Guest Database provides a list of customers, rooms they occupied, arrival and departure dates, number of occupants, and daily rate for a small bed-and-breakfast inn during one month. ⁴Room rates are the same for one or two guest; however, additional guests must pay an additional $20 per person per day for meals. Guest staying for seven days or more receive a 10% discount. Modify the spreadsheet to calculate the number of days that each party stayed at the inn and the total revenue for the length of stay.

⁴Based on Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon, Essentials of Management Information System.

To determine

To calculate the number of days that each party stayed at the inn and the total revenue for the length of stay.

Explanation of Solution

Given:

The data consists list of customers, rooms they occupied, arrivaland departure dates, number of occupants, anddaily rate for a small bed-and-breakfast inn duringone month

Formula:

  $\begin{array}{l}Numberofdays=Departuredate-Arrivaldate\\ Totalrevenue=Numberofdays\times Dailyrate\end{array}$

Following is the table which have number of days and total revenue for that days.

ID	Guest First Name	Guest Last Name	Room	Room Type	Number of days	Total revenue
1	Barry	Lloyd	Hayes	Bay-window	3	$450.00
2	Michael	Lunsford	Cleveland	Ocean	8	$900.00
3	Kim	Kyuong	Coolidge	Bay-window	3	$450.00
4	Edward	Holt	Washington	Ocean	2	$650.00
5	Thomas	Collins	Lincoln	Ocean	4	$1,200.00
6	Paul	Bodkin	Coolidge	Bay-window	2	$300.00
7	Randall	Battenburg	Washington	Ocean	8	$2,340.00
8	Calvin	Nowotney	Lincoln	Ocean	2	$600.00
9	Homer	Gonzalez	Lincoln	Ocean	2	$640.00
10	David	Sanchez	Jefferson	Bay-window	2	$350.00
11	Buster	Whisler	Jackson	Ocean	3	$750.00
12	Julia	Martines	Reagan	Bay-window	5	$750.00
13	Samuel	Kim	Truman	Side	10	$1,125.00
14	Arthur	Gottfried	Garfield	Side	2	$250.00
15	Darlene	Shore	Arthur	Ocean	7	$1,386.00
16	Carlyle	Charleston	Quincy Adams	Bay-window	3	$450.00
17	Albert	Goldstone	Johnson	Ocean	2	$500.00
18	Charlene	Tilson	Van Buren	Bay-window	2	$300.00
19	Everett	Chad	Madison	Ocean	4	$1,100.00
20	Gerald	Pittsfield	Roosevelt	Ocean	2	$550.00
21	Jamal	Smith	Tyler	Bay-window	3	$450.00
22	Louis	Paris	Jackson	Ocean	4	$1,000.00
23	Nigel	Stratford	Eisenhower	Ocean	2	$400.00
24	Peter	Willington	Grant	Ocean	2	$400.00
25	Ronald	Cartier	Jefferson	Bay-window	4	$700.00
26	Trista	Leven	Eisenhower	Ocean	3	$600.00
27	Valerie	Snell	Adams	Bay-window	3	$450.00
28	Walter	Acton	Polk	Side	7	$1,039.50
29	Xavier	Trezza	McKinley	Side	3	$375.00
30	Zachary	Miller	Washington	Ocean	3	$975.00