Question

You are the manager of a clothing store. You must decide how many of your employees to put on the sales floor, and how many to put on the register. Because employees on the sales floor cause customers to buy more products, if you do not have at least 2 employees on the register for every 5 employees working on the sales floor, your registers will get very clogged and you will lose business. You have a total of 84 employees, and you wish to have as many on the sales floor as possible. How should you divide your employees

Answer 1

Answer:

c. 60 on the sales floor, 24 on the register.

Explanation:

Given that

The total number of employees to manage is 84

and w assume that the no of employees on the sales floor after having division be x

also the given condition is that there should be minimum of 2 employees for every 5 employees that worked on the sales floor

So that means

x ÷84 = 5 ÷ (5 + 2)

after solving this x = 60

So the no of employees on register is

= 84 - 60

= 24