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CALL Saved Help Save & Exit Submit Check my work Suppose that there are 1 million federal workers at the lowest level of the federal bureaucracy and that above them there are multiple layers of supervisors and supervisors-of-supervisors. Assume that each higher level is one-tenth the size of the one below it because the government is using a 10:1 ratio of supervisees to supervisors. That is, for every 10 workers at the bottom, there is 1 supervisor, for every 10 of those supervisors, there is 1 supervisor-of- supervisors, for every one of those supervisors-of-supervisors, there is a supervisor-of-supervisors-of-supervisors, and so on, all the way up the bureaucratic pyramid to the president. Instructions: Enter your answers as whole numbers. a. How many supervisors will there be in each supervisory layer of the federal bureaucracy? Start with the layer of supervisors directly above the 1 million workers at the bottom First Level of President Bureaucracy < Prev 3 of 9 i Next > Ada earch

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• First level of Bureaucracy : 10 % of 1million = 100000
• Second level of Bureaucracy: 10% of 100000= 10000
• Third level of Bureaucracy: 10% of 10000= 1000
• Fourth level of Bureaucracy: 10% of 1000= 100
• Fifth level of Bureaucracy: 10% of 100= 10
• Sixth level of Bureaucracy: 10% of 10= 1= The President