By June

I signed up to sell scrips at Punahou’s Carnival at the last minute, because I saw email urging parents to help out two days before the carnival. Scrip selling is hard work, but I would rather work hard than wasting my time there.

Why is scrip selling hard work? The booth for selling scrips is small. In fact, it is so small that I could hardly move once I sit down on my stool. There are two people in each booth, with a policeman standing outside. (You will see why shortly.)

Each scrip costs 25c, and each sheet is worth $5. One needs scrips for almost everything at the carnival (except for big items, such as a painting that has a sticker price of $5000). I worked the last shift on the last day, starting to sell at 8 pm and stop at 10:30 pm, half an hour before the closing time of the carnival. (To get to Punahou, I had to park at U. Hawaii and walk. So, I had to leave home at 6:30 pm in order to sign in at 7:15 pm, and I didn't get home until 11:30 pm.)

The booth has only front windows to sell scrips, so it can be hot, dusty (or smoky depending on its location), and noisy (as mine was this time, surrounded by game stations). I managed to sip some water, but didn’t dare to drink it. Why? I was locked in there, no bathroom breaks!

I kept on taking in cash (and cash only), and giving out scrips and changes. It was not super busy, but I managed to sell $5000 worth of scrips. (How did I know that? Well, each bundle is worth $500, and I had 11 bundles in all. So, by looking at the leftover bundles, I knew what I sold in that 2.5 hrs. Whether the cash I collected will match the scrips I sold is not my job; someone will be counting the cash I collected.)

Now, you can do the math for Punahou’s Carnival 2011. Each booth has two people. There are about 10 booths in all (maybe more). There are four shifts each day, from 11 am to 10:30 pm. And the carnival lasted for two days, always. What is the total $$$$$$ you get?

 

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