SOLUTION: Problem: An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new seerver can handle 41,000 "hits" per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 105,000

Question 148513: Problem: An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new seerver can handle 41,000 "hits" per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 105,000 hits per second; but every month, the peak demand increases by 2800 hits per second. Use a Proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 24 months.

Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One machine can handle 41000 hits. The expected number of hits at the site 24 months from now is today's hit rate + 2800*24.
Set up a ratio as follows:

Then solve for x

Since you can't buy 0.2 of a machine, you'll need 5 machines to handle the load. They don't say how many machines the company currently has now, but if they are handling 105000 successfully they must have at least 3 machines now. So they 'may' need to buy 2 more.
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