Meal Plan Calculus

Blatantly stealing ideas and wording from Dave Moore here.

Typically, a student is on campus for a maximum of 32 weeks in the year: 14 in each semester & 4 in Winter Study, though the 14 can drop to 12.5 or so if you leave for reading periods and don't have many exams. This ignores the 10 guest meals for the 21/week plan and the 6 guest meals for those on the 14.

If you eat EVERY meal, each week, you are paying X per meal:

• 21-meal plan: $5364/(21*32) = $7.98 / meal
• 14-meal plan: $5010/(14*32) = $11.18 / meal
• 10-meal plan: $4094/(10*32) = $12.79 / meal
• 5-meal plan: $2164/(5*32) = $13.53 / meal

• 50-meal block: $658/(50) = $13.16 / meal

And that's why I'm going off the meal plan.....