A company is able to process 100 customer statements (bills) per day per processing clerk. It has 250 customer statements to process per day. How many full-time processing clerks are needed if the company wants a processing-clerk utilization rate as close to 0.80 as possible?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

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To determine how many processing clerks are needed, we need to divide the total number of bills to be processed per day (250) by the number of bills each individual clerk can process per day (100).

250/100 = 2.5

This means that we need at least 2.5 processing clerks to process 250 bills per day.

Since the company wants a processing clerk utilization rate as close to 0.80 as possible, we need to round up to the next whole number.

2.5 rounded up is 3.

Therefore, we need three full-time processing clerks to process 250 bills per day at a utilization rate as close to 0.80 as possible.

A Company Is Able to Process 100 Customer Statements (Bills)