Sunday, July 26, 2009

[A Solution Game] A man bought a house

Can anyone write the procedure how to solve this below problem?
It seems we will have two answers according to the way of resolvers thinking can be thinking with Maths or with Business, please write down and share in the comment:

Problem:
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"A person bought a house for $60,000. Soon thereafter they sold it for $70,000, upon moving out of town.
A few month later, they were transftered back to town and purchased the same house for $80,000, then the person grew tired of the house and resold it for $90,000."

Question: How much money did the person gain/lose (or break even) on the exchange? How you calculate this?

4 comments:

  1. Result : $20,000
    Resolve:
    1St: if we borrow money from Mr. A $60,000 to buy a house for $60,000 and then we sold it for $70,000 and payback to Mr. A $60,000 => cash on hand $10,000
    2nd: if we borrow again $70,000 to buy the same house for $80,000, and then we resold it for $90,000 and finishly payback to Mr. A $70,000 => Cash on hand $20,000

    Therefore total= 1st & 2nd => $20,000 gain

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  2. The answer is: Total of Selling Amount - Total of Purchasing Amount => 160,000 - 140,000 = 20,000
    :)

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  3. The answer = 20000-interest rate

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  4. -60,000
    +70,000
    -80,000
    +90,000
    =======
    +20,000

    So he gain 20,000$
    Note: we don't care how he got the money from.

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