If five customers are ranked equally as 1, what rank will the next customer receive?

When customers are ranked and multiple customers share the same rank, it is referred to as a "tied rank." In this case, we have five customers that are all assigned a rank of 1. In ranking systems, when multiple entities are tied for the same rank, the next rank continues sequentially after the last tied rank.

Given that five customers are tied as rank 1, the next rank would not be 2 but would skip to the next ordinal position. After five customers with a rank of 1, the next distinct rank available will be 6, which accounts for the five customers that hold the rank of 1. Therefore, the next customer will receive a rank of 6. This is the standard practice in ranking to ensure that all positions are filled according to the tied entities' numbers.