Math Problem

[rgcraig]

A secretary received 1547 calls in 45 work days.

A work day is 8 hrs.

Assume each call lasted 1 minute each.

How much time was spent per day on the phone?

[Elizabeth]

Sorry I am slow, received 1547 calls?

[rgcraig]

Sorry I am slow, received 1547 calls?

No, that was my bad - I left the word "calls" out.

[Ferd]

She worked 21,600 minutes and spent 1547 minutes on these calls.

Thats a little over 7% of her time.

[Ron]

34-35 minutes

[Ferd]

what Ron said

[rgcraig]

She worked 21,600 minutes and spent 1547 minutes on these calls.

Thats a little over 7% of her time.

How many minutes per day did these calls take?

[pelathais]

She worked 21,600 minutes and spent 1547 minutes on these calls.

Thats a little over 7% of her time.
Are you sure? The question was, "How much time was spent per day on the phone?"

Calling her coworkers, kids, sitter, girlfriends, husband, pet sitter and the local 900 astrology hotline would add substantially to her totals.

[rgcraig]

34-35 minutes

BINGO!

Just checking my brain.

My boss has been doing an analysis for YEARS WRONG!!!!!!! I just found the error.

She had reported the lady spend 4.3 HOURS on the phone per day??????????????????

[Ferd]

How many minutes per day did these calls take?

still works out to 7% or what Ron said.

[rgcraig]

Her formula was showing how many calls per hour she was getting - 4.3 calls per hour, but she thought it was telling she was on the phone for 4.3 hours.

She has the Masters Degree!

[MissBrattified]

BINGO!

Just checking my brain.

My boss has been doing an analysis for YEARS WRONG!!!!!!! I just found the error.

She had reported the lady spend 4.3 HOURS on the phone per day??????????????????

I figured a little over half an hour per day?

What kind of analysis?

[rgcraig]

Sad part is that management has trusted her analysis through the years!

Made some decision on her reports that affected a lot of people, departments, etc.

Man.

[Ferd]

BINGO!

Just checking my brain.

My boss has been doing an analysis for YEARS WRONG!!!!!!! I just found the error.

She had reported the lady spend 4.3 HOURS on the phone per day??????????????????

she got her order of operations wrong huh?

[MissBrattified]

Her formula was showing how many calls per hour she was getting - 4.3 calls per hour, but she thought it was telling she was on the phone for 4.3 hours.

She has the Masters Degree!

LOL!!!!

A Masters Degree is not a sign of genius. ;)

[Elizabeth]

This is what I get

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 divided by 8 hrs = 4.2 calls and hour

4.2 divided by 60 minuets = 14.28 minuets per call

[rgcraig]

I figured a little over half an hour per day?

What kind of analysis?

How much time an assistant spends handling phone calls per day. She's used the report to support hiring more admins in departments or actually reprimanding assistants that spend too much time on the phone and it's been inaccurate all these years.

[Timmy]

How much time an assistant spends handling phone calls per day. She's used the report to support hiring more admins in departments or actually reprimanding assistants that spend too much time on the phone and it's been inaccurate all these years.

Heads will roll!!

[MissBrattified]

This is what I get

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 divided by 8 hrs = 4.2 calls and hour

4.2 divided by 60 minuets = 14.28 minuets per call

You were good until step 3.

4.2 calls per hour is simply 4.2 minutes per hour on the phone. :thumbsup

[rgcraig]

This is what I get

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 divided by 8 hrs = 4.2 calls and hour

4.2 divided by 60 minuets = 14.28 minuets per call

That is correct.

However, she's saying that each call is only one minute, so she's trying to find out how much time those calls take per day (averaging only one minute per call)

[Timmy]

Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

[rgcraig]

Heads will roll!!

Doubt anyone will ever know except the two of us and everyone here.

Just BLOWS me away.

I had the hardest time explaining it to her - you can't argue with math though.

I finally backed into it and told her if you take 34 minutes a day x 45 days that equals 1530 calls.

She couldn't say a word. Her boss walked up - I exited and came to my office and did a WHOOHOOOO!!!!

[Elizabeth]

How many minutes per day did these calls take?

Here would go my step three and the 14 minuets.

But if you are going by what she is saying(about a minuet a call) then she is only spending 4.2 minuets and hour on the phone?

Sounds like she is lying-imo

[rgcraig]

This is what I get

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 divided by 8 hrs = 4.2 calls and hour

4.2 divided by 60 minuets = 14.28 minuets per call

1547 divided by 45 days of work = 34.3 calls a day

34.3 calls average one minute each = 34.3 minutes per day on calls.

[pelathais]

Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
That same trick gets used around here from time to time. Misdirection.

"Follow my facts - they're all correct! Therefore you MUST reach my conclusions, no matter what!"

But what happens when we pare the whole thing down? Try adding the $27 not refunded to the guests to the $3 dollars that was refunded. The total is $30 bucks.

[rgcraig]

Here would go my step three and the 14 minuets.

But if you are going by what she is saying(about a minuet a call) then she is only spending 4.2 minuets and hour on the phone?

Sounds like she is lying-imo

Not lying - - she just didn't think through her formula. Her answer was how many calls per hour she gets (4.2) and she thought it was 4.2 hours.

I cringe at the thought of how many she has reprimanded in the past for talking on the phone too long and they weren't. Probably even wrote them up.

[Felicity]

What does "wrote them up" mean?

[Elizabeth]

Not lying - - she just didn't think through her formula. Her answer was how many calls per hour she gets (4.2) and she thought it was 4.2 hours.

I cringe at the thought of how many she has reprimanded in the past for talking on the phone too long and they weren't. Probably even wrote them up.
That is sad! How can she be a good leader if she doesn't even understand her own math?! Correcting people with the wrong knowledge, poor folks!

[rgcraig]

What does "wrote them up" mean?

Discipline 1st step - - verbal warning (you talk too much on the phone)
Discipline 2nd step - - written warning (report proving you talk too much on the phone)

[rgcraig]

That is sad! How can she be a good leader if she doesn't even understand her own math?! Correcting people with the wrong knowledge, poor folks!

She was a bit shocked, surprised, stunned, but said I can admit I made a mistake.

However, how far will she take that? Just admit to me or now go back to ALL the people she reported incorrectly and admit she messed up.

[Felicity]

Discipline 1st step - - verbal warning (you talk too much on the phone)
Discipline 2nd step - - written warning (report proving you talk too much on the phone):woot

[Blsdbeyondmsure]

But now I know & well... let's just say no more new admin's. J/K

[rgcraig]

But now I know & well... let's just say no more new admin's. J/K

OH! You have to swear to secrecy!

[Praxeas]

A secretary received 1547 calls in 45 work days.

A work day is 8 hrs.

Assume each call lasted 1 minute each.

How much time was spent per day on the phone?
34

[Praxeas]

How many hours a day she worked was irrelevant

[Ron]

BINGO!

Just checking my brain.

My boss has been doing an analysis for YEARS WRONG!!!!!!! I just found the error.

She had reported the lady spend 4.3 HOURS on the phone per day??????????????????

We have a "BINGO!":thumbsup

What'd I win?:hmmm

[CAD/JPY]

Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

Your revised bill is $25, the mistake is trying to account for $30. $9 x 3 people is $27, less the $2 stolen by the bellman, gives you the revised bill of $25.

Question is, does the bellman have to pay tithes on the $2???
:nah

[MrsMcD]

LOL!!!!

A Masters Degree is not a sign of genius. ;)

Obviously. LOL

[Timmy]

Your revised bill is $25, the mistake is trying to account for $30. $9 x 3 people is $27, less the $2 stolen by the bellman, gives you the revised bill of $25.

Question is, does the bellman have to pay tithes on the $2???
:nah

Yep. Ill-gotten gain is "increase", just the same! ;)

Hey Renda! Let your boss have a go at this one! :lol

[ILG]

My brain just can't compute that stuff. Someday, I should take a class!!

[Fiyahstarter]

That same trick gets used around here from time to time. Misdirection.

"Follow my facts - they're all correct! Therefore you MUST reach my conclusions, no matter what!"


Now that's just downright funny! And truthful!

[TRFrance]

Her formula was showing how many calls per hour she was getting - 4.3 calls per hour, but she thought it was telling she was on the phone for 4.3 hours.

She has the Masters Degree!

Sad part is that management has trusted her analysis through the years!

Made some decision on her reports that affected a lot of people, departments, etc.

Man.
She still has her job after all this?

[rgcraig]

She still has her job after all this?

I'm the only one that knows (well except one other person) and my boss.

[Elizabeth]

She still has her job after all this?

I was thinking the same thing-