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12 September, 04:10

A company that sells widgets has to pay $/$500$ in maintenance fees each day and then it pays each worker $/$15$ per hour. Each worker makes 5 widgets per hour, which are sold at $/$3.10$ each. What is the least number of workers the company has to hire in order to make a profit in an 8-hour workday?

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  1. 12 September, 04:16
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    Let's use h to represent h for hours:

    500 + 15r > 5*3.10h

    15r + 500 > 15.5h

    0.5h > 500

    h > 1000

    So, one person needs at least 1000 hours to make profit, so now we need to divide by 8:

    1000/8 = 125

    The least amount of people required is 125 people.
  2. 12 September, 04:31
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    I agree with the solution above, but they forgot one thing - they want a profit, and with 125 workers they will just end up with the same amount of money, so we must add 1 to 125 to get

    1+125 = 126 workers
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