The Alpha company has 189 employees that share an office that has 32 floors. If they built another building for 50 employees, how many floors should the new building have?

9 floors

Step-by-step explanation:

First, we need to find out how mach people work on one floor so we divide the total number of employees in the first office building by the number of floors that the Alpha company has in that building. And so we get...

189 / 32 = 5.9

but since we can not have the number of people be represented as a fraction we just assume that 6 people work on each floor. And based on this assumption we can find out the number of floors needed in the second building by dividing the number of employees in the second building by 6. And so we get

50 / 6 = 8.33

But we can not have 8.3 floors we can only have 9 floors.

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