Question

At a Marine Corps military base there is a barbershop where the actual output from each chair is 12 haircuts per hour. It operates with an efficiency of 85%. If the base needs to have 650 haircuts a day how many barber chairs should there be if the barber shop is open 10 hours per day

Answer 1

Barbers= 5.41= 6 barbers

Explanation:

Giving the following formula:

Haircuts per hour= 12

Number of hours= 10

Haircuts needed= 650

First, we need to calculate the number of haircuts each barber can make per day:

Haircuts per barber a day= 12*10= 120 haircuts

Now, the number of barbers needed:

Barbers= total haircuts / haircuts per day

Barbers= 650/120

Barbers= 5.41= 6 barbers