Hannah's Budget
using budgets to make
decisions
Hannah Cooper Hannah is a day care worker who make $9.75 an hour. Her average monthly earnings are $1600/month. Her take home pay is about $1325/month. She shares an apartment with a friend, rent is $350. Utilities are $40 a month. Gasoline is $125 on average per month. Her car is paid for but she has to pay about $150 a month in insurance (she had some speeding tickets) She has a cell phone that costs her $100 a month. Her internet account is $60 a month. DirectTV is $85 a month. She shops a lot and spends about $150 a month on clothing. She loves to go out on the weekends, dropping an average of $50 a week on entertainment.
She buys food every week and spends about $90 – 120 on groceries per week. She is paying on a student loan, $130 a month and a personal loan which is $85 a month. Hannah is finding that she does not have enough money to last her the whole month.
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USING a SPREADSHEET
(Google Sheets), Create
a BUDGET for Hannah.
Make some recommendations on how she can live
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