An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new faster server, which will replace the old server, can handle 45,000 "hits" (users accessing the site) per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 110,000 hits per second. But, every month, the peak demand increases by 2500 hits per second. Use a proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 24 months.

I’m not going to do the math because I’m lazy but I’ll tell you how to do it.
1) figure out how many new servers you need to accommodate how many hits your getting at the moment.
2)then you need to figure out how many new servers you need to buy each month to accommodate the increase in hits.

Using a proportional equation means to set up the equation like

how many hits your server can take / over one second
is equal to
hits your getting per second / over one second
(Setting a problem up like that, X over P is equal to W over N is called a proportional equation.)

that way the denominators [bottom numbers] are equal.
Do that to help you understand what your dealing with

But you need to figure out how many people your not accommodating

How many hits you get minus how many you can accommodate = X
Now take X and divide it by how many people each new server can take which will = N

Your company now needs to buy N

Since you get 2500 additional hits each month, W, your company needs to buy W each month.

If you need to show your work just do all this on the paper or find a way to use a proportion equation. The way I think I don’t use them to figure out this kind of problem. I doubt your teacher will mark you wrong for finding out the answer and doing it in the right way, whether you use the proportion or not the math you do on the paper still gives the right answer every time.

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