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?

a. 44 on the sales floor, 40 on the register.
b. 55 on the sales floor, 29 on the register.
c. 60 on the sales floor, 24 on the register.
d. 75 on the sales floor, 9 on the register.

Answer 1

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

Explanation:

The total number of employees to manage = 84

Let the number of employees on the sales floor after division be x.

The given condition is " at least 2 employees on the register for every 5 employees working on the sales floor".

By direct proportion, we have

`(x)/(84) =(5)/(5+2)`

`(x)/(84) =(5)/(7)`

solving the equation we get

x=60

Therefore, after division the number of employees on the sales floor= 60

The number of employee on register = 84-60=24