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

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

For 36 bays, Bueno Mart will need 4 workers for each bay, which totals to 36 bays x 4 workers = 144 workers.

And for every 54 bay workers, they will need 3 supervisors. So, for 144 workers they will need 144 workers / 54 workers = 2.67 supervisors.

Since you cannot have a fraction of a supervisor, Bueno Mart will need to hire 3 supervisors for the new warehouse in North Carolina.