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This year they have eight technicians on staff and each technician is fully saturated with accounts.
a.How many accounts does the company support at this time?
You stated that each technician has 5 accounts. This year there are 8 technicians. How many accounts do you think the company has?
40
To calculate the total number of accounts supported by the company, you need to multiply the number of technicians by the number of accounts each technician handles. In this case, there are 8 technicians and each technician is fully saturated with accounts, meaning they handle a fixed number of accounts.
The information given in the question states that each technician has 5 accounts. So to find the total number of accounts, you would multiply 8 (the number of technicians) by 5 (the number of accounts per technician).
This would give you 8 technicians x 5 accounts per technician = 40 accounts.
Therefore, the company currently supports 40 accounts.