A company has considered creating a network for their complex that has just been completed. The building is composed of six floors including the ground floor. You have been tasked to be the designer of this network which will later be connected to the rest of the company network. It is assumed that you will base your design on Ethernet and all the floors will be cabled. It is further assumed that each floor will have approximately 380 computers. On each floor, there will be administrative computers which must be separated from the student computers.

Assuming that the average UTP cable run for each computer is 50 metres. How many reels of UTP cable would you require for wiring the whole building?

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