RE: Strong Bad News: I Did a Good Job.
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You are in charge of 40 associates. They can process 120 packages an hour.
Poorly worded math problems are a bitch. Does “they” refer to an average employee, or to the total of the team? Those two sentences could be construed to mean that each associate can process 120/40=3 packages an hour and that the entire team does 120 per hour OR that each associate can process 120 packages per hour so 4,800 per hour for the team as a whole.
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I hated it when my teacher gave me dumb questions like that
I hate that kind of problems, too. People who can't write unambiguously worded math problems have no business presenting math problems to other people. But I guess it's clear from the context that processing 3 packages is an hour is not what happens.
Agree completely, my maths suck but if is referring that the whole 40 associates makes 120 packages per hour, then is simplier, in ten hours without break they'll do 1200 if you count the break then in one hour they'll do 120 - 120/4, so 90 then are 1100.
If each associate makes 120 then are 4800 as a whole as you said but you have to give them the break so are 4800 - 4800/4 = 3400 in one hour with break then in ten hours 48000 - 3400 = 45600
Pd: See? I suck at math there will be 4800x9 + (4800/4)x3 then 46800
And above are 120x9 + (120/4)x3 = 1170
Maybe I'm wrong I've always been pathetic in math. The problem is more "bitchy" than it seems at first sight.
Pd: And again I fucked up because there are TWO breaks of 15 minutes. 🤣
120x9 +(120/4)x2 = 1140
4800x9 +(4800/4)x2 = 46600
This is for every day so x4
4560 and 186400
I'm sure the way I'm explaining it is actually worse than how it was explained to me. Each person processes 120 packages an hour. This is the standard that everyone at work has known for years.