After numerous campus interviews, Steve Baden, a senior at Great Northern College, received two office
interview invitations from the Baltimore offices of two large firms. Both firms offered to cover his outof-
pocket expenses (travel, hotel, and meals).

He scheduled the interviews for both firms on the same
day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. At the conclusion of each interview, he submitted to
both firms his total out-of-pocket expenses for the trip to Baltimore: mileage $112 (280 miles at $0.40),

hotel $130, meals $36, parking and tolls $18, for a total of $296. He believes this approach is
appropriate. If he had made two trips, his cost would have been two times $296. He is also certain that
neither firm knew he had visited the other on that same trip. Within ten days Steve received two checks
in the mail, each in the amount of $296.