A payment reviewer tests the arithmetic: a $194,000 allowance is reconciled to $233,300 actual cost. Before markup, what additive adjustment is due?
Correct Answer
B) $39,300
The calculation gives $39,300 for the stated allowance add. Other choices: the distractors come from omitting an adjustment, using the wrong rate, or applying a rounded shortcut for calculation item 348.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
The calculation gives $39,300 for the stated allowance add.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: $35,370
allowance add, choice a: $35,370 is wrong because $35,370 takes one allowance-side amount as the adjustment.
Option C: $43,230
allowance add, choice c: $43,230 takes one allowance-side amount as the adjustment.
Option D: $49,125
allowance add, choice d: $49,125 is wrong because $49,125 takes one allowance-side amount as the adjustment.
Memory Technique
Remember allowance add as "base, adjustment, final unit"; the last unit should read $39,300.
Reference Hint
Open Construction Project Management, 5th Ed. (2022); use the index entry or section for "allowance add calculation" to confirm that The calculation gives $39,300 for the stated allowance add.
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