At the daily rate of $12.50 per child worker per day, how many should I hire

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Blast! Turns out child workers are not as productive as adults that I was basing my decision off of. Basically, they are two minutes slower across the board:

# of Concession Stand Employees Average Wait Time (Minutes) Average Wait Time (Minutes) with Child Employees
1 18 20
2 8 10
3 6 8
4 5 7
5 7 9

At the daily rate of $12.50 per child worker per day, how many should I hire?

(If you are doing this correctly you are thinking with marginal analysis, and if so, might be wondering if this is a trick question. It is not, it is quite straight forward precisely because of marginal analysis!) 

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