If a Company Employs Two Office Assistants for Every Nine

question 11

Multiple Choice

If a company employs two office assistants for every nine architects (a staffing ratio of 2:9) and it plans to expand and hire eighteen new architects,how many new office assistants will it need to hire?

• A)2
• B)4
• C)6
• D)8

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Burden of Proof

The obligation in a legal setting to prove one's assertion or the principle that the party asserting a claim bears the responsibility of proving its truth.

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Independent Variables

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