Question

Susan would like to have 25 sales this week. She knows from experience she has a 20% closing rate for all customers she talks to. How many customers must Susan talk to in order to reach her goal?

A) 20 customers
B) 125 customers
C) 100 customers
D) 150 customers

Answer 1

Susan must talk to 125 customers to achieve her goal of 25 sales, based on her 20% closing rate.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many customers Susan must talk to in order to reach her goal of 25 sales, we need to use her experience with a 20% closing rate. Since the closing rate is 20%, this means that for every 5 customers she talks to, she makes one sale (because 20% of 5 is 1). To achieve 25 sales, Susan would need to talk to 5 times as many customers, as each group of 5 customers results in one sale.

Thus, the calculation would be 25 sales × 5 customers per sale = 125 customers. So, Susan must talk to 125 customers to reach her goal of 25 sales.