Part (a)

1.If the ratio of accounts-to-support technicians is 5:1, how many accounts are supported by each technician?
2.If there are currently 8 technicians on staff, how many accounts total are they supporting now?

Please see the previous answer.

40

To answer Part (a) of the question, let's break it down step by step:

1. If the ratio of accounts-to-support technicians is 5:1, it means for every 5 accounts, there is 1 support technician.

To find out how many accounts each technician supports, we need to divide the total number of accounts by the number of support technicians.

Let's assign variables to the unknowns:

Let T be the total number of accounts.
Let N be the number of support technicians.

According to the given ratio, we know that:
T/N = 5/1

To solve for T, we can cross-multiply and simplify:
T = 5N

Therefore, each technician supports 5 accounts.

2. If there are currently 8 technicians on staff, we can find the total number of accounts they are supporting.

Using the equation T = 5N, where N is 8 (the number of support technicians), we can substitute the value of N and solve for T:

T = 5 * 8
T = 40

Hence, the total number of accounts supported by the 8 technicians is 40.