Question

A company policy requires that, for every 60 employees, there must be 3 supervisors. If there are 267 supervisors at the company, how many employees does the company have?

Answer 1

@Kim21 Let us consider a set of people alright? let one set have 60 employees and 3 supervisors. The question says 267 supervisors, hence how many sets do we have?

Answer 2

267/3.

Answer 3

89

Answer 4

Now how many employees do we have in 1 set? 60 right?
So total no. of employees will be 60*89

Answer 5

5340...thx!!! :)

Answer 6

Bingo! you got it there. cheers (Y) :-)