Question

you have 50000dollars
expenditure balance
20000 30000
15000 15000
9000 6000
6000 0
total 50000 total 51000
qn why the total differs?

Answer 1

nonsensical; spending $50,000 will turn your balance of $50,000 to $0.. unless you left something out.

Answer 2

woodrow73 what is left there? every transaction i think its clear. the problem why the two totals does not balance?

Answer 3

I'm not quite sure how you calculated the total under the balance column.

Answer 4

He is adding up the assorted remaining balances, which is simply a nonsensical thing to do and why there is an apparently odd number. You would never add up the different remaining balances in a single account. So do so is mathematically unsound.

Answer 5

You could also look at it this way:

\(\begin{array}{lr}
\text{expenditure} & \text{balance} \\
0 & 50000\\
20000 & 30000 \\
15000 & 15000 \\
9000 & 6000 \\
6000 & 0 \\
\text{total } 50000 & \text{total } 101000\\
\end{array}\)

Suddenly the absurdity of totaling up the balance column becomes more evident. The balance column is already a running total, so the proper form of totaling is this:

\(\begin{array}{lr}
\text{expenditure} & \text{balance} \\
0 & 50000\\
20000 & 30000 \\
15000 & 15000 \\
9000 & 6000 \\
6000 & 0 \\
\text{totals } 50000 & 0\\
\end{array}\)

For 50000 spent and 0 left.