Question

Sam’s dry cleaning store has 3 employees who fold the clothes. Each employee can fold 45 shirts every hour. Assuming a level aggregate program how many more employees will Sam has to hire or fire to meet a demand of 1600 shirts per day if everyone works an 8 hour shift? Hire 5 more employees Hire 2 more employees Fire 1 employee Hire 17 more employees Fire 2 employee

Answer 1

Hire 2 more employees.

Explanation:

Multiply 45 by 8 to find out how many shirts 1 employee can fold for one day, one employee can fold 360 shirts in one day, then multiply that by 3 to see how many shirts they can fold a day with only the three employees. They can fold 1080 shirts in one day.

1600-1080= 520. Subtracting the demand by how many his store already can fold shows how many more he needs.

1 employee isn't enough because they can only fold 360 shirts a day so he would need to hire 2 employees because they can fold 720 shirts which meets the demand of shirts that need to be folded.