A small business just leased a new computer and color laser printer for three years. The service contract for the the computer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of $100 a year plus a $25 service charge for each repair needed. The company's research suggested that during a given year
86%of these computers needed no repairs,
9% needed to be repaired once,
4% twice.
1% three times,
and none required more than three repiar.
what is all the needed information to help solve and solve this problem?
What is the question? Is it whether the service contact should be purchased? To answer that, you need to know the average price of repairs without the contract. The way you have stated the problem, there is a service charge of $25 per repair even in the contract is purchased. You also say nothing about the color printer repair frequency and cost.
how do you solve the equation
9x -5y =4
my answer is y=9/5 + 4/5
is this correct
if so, i's having problems making a table of values.
how do you solve the equation
9x -5y =4
my answer is y=9/5 + 4/5
is this correct
if so, i'm having problems making a table of values.
The answer is y = 9/5 x - 4/5
The needed information to solve this problem is:
1. The lease duration of the computer and color laser printer (which is mentioned as three years).
2. The cost of the service contract for the computer (which is mentioned as $100 per year).
3. The service charge for each repair needed (which is mentioned as $25).
Now, let's solve this problem step by step.
Step 1: Calculate the total cost of the service contract for three years.
The service contract costs $100 per year, so for three years, the total cost would be:
Total service contract cost = $100/year x 3 years = $300
Step 2: Calculate the percentage of computers that require repairs.
According to the given information:
- 86% of computers needed no repairs.
- 9% needed to be repaired once.
- 4% needed to be repaired twice.
- 1% needed to be repaired three times.
To calculate the percentage of computers requiring repairs, we subtract the percentage of computers that needed no repairs from 100%:
Percentage of computers requiring repairs = 100% - 86% = 14%
Step 3: Calculate the average number of repairs per computer.
To find the average number of repairs per computer, we multiply the percentage of computers requiring repairs with the respective number of repairs they need and then sum them up:
Average number of repairs per computer = (9% x 1) + (4% x 2) + (1% x 3) = 0.09 + 0.08 + 0.01 = 0.18
Step 4: Calculate the total number of repairs for the serviced computers.
The number of repairs can be found by multiplying the average number of repairs per computer with the total number of computers:
Total number of repairs = Average number of repairs per computer x Total number of computers
However, the total number of computers is not given in the information provided. If you have that information available, you can multiply it with the average number of repairs per computer to find the total number of repairs.
Overall, we now have the necessary information to calculate the total cost of the service contract and the average number of repairs per computer.