Allied Corp. has found that an effective salesperson should call on each account about six times a year and spend about two hours per sales call. Every salesperson works a 40-hour week and takes off two weeks for vacation each year. A salesperson must spend half of the time on travel and administration. Approximately how many salespeople does Allied need to service 1000 accounts?

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Allied needs 12 salespeople to service 1000 accounts. Each salesperson can make 6 calls per year, and each call takes 2 hours. So, each salesperson can make 12 calls per year. With 1000 accounts, Allied needs 12 salespeople to make 12 calls per year to each account.