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QUESTION 6 of 10: Ashleigh hires a group of security staff. Each worker works an average of 80 hours per month at $14/hour. If her monthly labor cost for security workers is $23,520, how many security workers did Ashleigh hire?

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Answer:

21 security workers

Step-by-step explanation:

Calculation for how many security workers that was hire

First step is to calculate the amount earned by each employee

Amount earned=80 hours x $14

Amount earned=$1,120

Last step is to calculate how many security workers that was hire

Using this formula

Numbers of Security hired=Security workers labor cost /Amount earned

Let plug in the formula

Numbers of Security hired=$23,520/$1,120

Numbers of Security hired=21 security workers

Therefore the numbers of Security workers that was hired will be 21

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