Launch budget exercise
All amounts are fictional dollars for a student-hub launch event.
| Item | Quantity | Unit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Posters | 12 | $2.50 |
| Snacks | 15 | $3.00 |
| Name tags | 20 | $0.50 |
| Room booking | 1 | $20.00 |
Claim in the meeting notes: "The total is $95, so we are within budget."
Spending limit: $100.
Your task
- Calculate each line and the total independently.
- Compare your calculation with the claim.
- Explain whether the plan is within the spending limit.
- Recommend a specific, feasible change. Show the revised arithmetic.
- Preserve the original data and distinguish an error correction from a proposed change to quantities.
Ask Copilot to check your reasoning only after your own first pass. Do not let it silently change the data to make the answer fit.
Publish your recommendation as docs/hub/budget.md and add it to MkDocs navigation.
Include a source link, checked calculations, assumptions, and the fictional-data notice.