Question

A store owner purchases 30 boxes of flash drives. Of those boxes 1/5 are given to the employees, and the rest are placed on the shelves to be sold. Each employee receives 2/3 of the boxes that are given to the staff. How many employees are there?

Answer 1

A. 4 employees
B. 9 employees
C. 12 employees
D. 15 employees

Answer 2

Assuming "staff" and "employees" are synonymous, this question makes absolutely no sense. Typo??
How can everybody receive 2/3 of the boxes given to themselves???

Answer 3

Hey lets get a pizza! Everybody gets 2/3 of the pizza!
Huh?!?

Answer 4

1/5 of 30 = 30/5 = 6 boxes of flashdrives are given to the employees.
2/3 of 6 = 12/3 = 4

There are 6 boxes and each employee receives 2/3 of each box. Making 4 employees.

You might get a second opinion on this....it is kinda confusing.

Answer 5

Ikr

Answer 6

It is part of my sister's math lesson today, my mom and I both think it is worded weirdly. The thing is if 2/3 of the 6 boxes go to each employee, then that is 4 boxes per employee and there would be two boxes left over. That would mean there are 1 and 1/2 employees. That just makes no sense.

Answer 7

ahh..! i think they mean each employee receives 2/3 of 1 box!!!
6 boxes divided by 2/3 = 9
There are 9 employees.

Answer 8

that is probably right

Answer 9

it shouldn't read "2/3 of the boxes"
it should read "2/3 of a box"

Answer 10

Badly worded problem

Answer 11

Yeah the whole curriculum is like that

Answer 12

Thanks

Answer 13

thank Bangkok....he figured it out :)

Answer 14

You still tried to help though, and I appreciate it.