Bueno Mart has a distribution warehouse in Arizona that services their stores in the southwest part of the country. At the Arizona warehouse, they have learned that to keep things running efficiently they need 4 workers for each bay and 3 supervisors for every 54 bay workers. If a new warehouse is being built in North Carolina to service the stores they are opening on the east coast, and the new warehouse is going to have 36 bays, then they will need to hire____ supervisors to run the new warehouse efficiently.
To determine the number of supervisors needed for the new warehouse, we'll first calculate the number of bay workers.
Since each bay requires 4 workers, we multiply the number of bays (36) by the number of workers per bay (4).
36 bays * 4 workers per bay = 144 bay workers.
Next, we'll calculate the number of supervisors needed for the bay workers.
The ratio given states that 3 supervisors are needed for every 54 bay workers.
The total number of bay workers (144) divided by the number of bay workers per supervisor (54) gives us the number of supervisors needed.
144 bay workers / 54 bay workers per supervisor = 2.6667 supervisors.
Since we can't have a fraction of a supervisor, we round up to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, the new warehouse in North Carolina will need to hire 3 supervisors to run efficiently.