Calculate the total profit or loss for the week of the days given, and give your answer as an integer.

Question

A pawn shop records the daily profit or loss as given in the following table.

 

Day Profit/loss
1           0
2           33
3           6
4          -11
5           44

Answer 1

The question asks for the total profit or loss for the week. Instead, let’s pretend the question asked for the total profit or loss for only the first two days.

So on day one, there was 0 profit or loss. On day two, the profit was 33. So the total profit or loss for these two days is 0 + 33 = 33.

So use the same process as in the example for all five days.