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.

Question

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.

Answer 1

To determine the number of workers needed for each bay in the new warehouse in North Carolina, we can use the same ratio as in the Arizona warehouse: 4 workers per bay.

Therefore, the new warehouse will require 4 workers x 36 bays = 144 workers.

To determine the number of supervisors needed for the new warehouse, we can use the ratio mentioned: 3 supervisors for every 54 bay workers.

Since there are 144 workers, we can divide this number by 54 to find how many sets of 54 bay workers there are: 144 workers / 54 = 2.67 sets.

Since we can't have a fraction of a supervisor, we need to round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, we need to hire 3 supervisors for the new warehouse.