Lloyd is a salesperson at an electronics store. The employees' sales are recorded to track their sales performance. There are 18 employees in the store, and Lloyd's sales place him in the 74th percentile.
How many people made fewer sales than Lloyd? Break down step by step
1. Calculate the total number of employees that made sales:
Since Lloyd is in the 74th percentile, this means that 74% of the employees made fewer sales than him. This can be represented as a fraction:
74/100 = 0.74
To find out how many employees made fewer sales than Lloyd, we multiply the total number of employees by the percentile:
0.74 * 18 = 13.32
Therefore, 13 employees made fewer sales than Lloyd.
2. Since we can't have fractions of employees, we round down to the nearest whole number because we can't have 0.32 of an employee:
So, 13 employees made fewer sales than Lloyd.