SOLUTION: Two stockbrokers are making cold calls to potential customers regarding a hot IPO. One of the brokers is able to get a new client every 0.125 hour, and the other is able to get a

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Question 57789: Two stockbrokers are making cold calls to potential customers regarding a hot IPO. One of the brokers is able to get a new client every 0.125 hour, and the other is able to get a new client every 0.2 hour. At what rate (in new clients per hour) are the new clients being acquired when both are working?
Answer by rcmcc(152) About Me  (Show Source):
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this is a simple percent question if the one stock broker can get 1 every .125 of an hour divide
1/.125=8 people per hour
same thing with the other stock broker
1/.2=5 people per hour
so in total 8+5= 13 people are being aquired per hour