SOLUTION: Employees at a large computer company earn sick leave in one-minute increments depending on how many hours per month they work. They can then use the sick leave time any time throu

Question 1144307: Employees at a large computer company earn sick leave in one-minute increments depending on how many hours per month they work. They can then use the sick leave time any time throughout the year. Any unused time goes into a sick bank account that they or other employees can use in the case of emergencies. The human resources department has determined that the amount of unused sick time for individual employees is uniformly distributed between 0 and 480 minutes. The company has decided to give a cash payment to any employee that returns over a specified amount of sick leave minutes. Assuming that the company wishes no more than 5 percent of all employees to get a cash payment, what should the required number of minutes be?
Answer by ikleyn(52809) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Hello,

when I read the first phrase/sentence

    Employees at a large computer company earn sick leave in one-minute increments depending on how many hours per month they work.

its meaning is just not clear to me.

No, I understand the meaning of each separate word (thanks to god).

But I do not understand mathematical meaning of this set of words, when they are taken together.

Therefore ( or "That is why" ), I did not even start to read it further.

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