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In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection are less than 17 years of age and 30% of the employees who are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection are more than or equal to 17 years of age. If 16% of total employees are more than or equal to 17 years of age and are vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection.

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Percent employees, that are 17 years old or more, and are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection
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A. Quantity A is greater
B. Quantity B is greater
C. The two quantities are equal
D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given
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In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   11 Aug 2021, 08:28
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Answer's in the question. '30% of employees who are not vulnerable to the infection are more than or equal to 17 years of age.'

30%>24%. Therefore, A.

That's the only way I could interpret this.
Question's a bit incomprehensible. If option A, by 'percent employees', refers to the percentage from the total number of employees, then the answer is C.
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   11 Aug 2021, 11:38
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Explanation:

Refer to the table;
Let the total number of employees be 100
Vulnerable employees be M
So, Not vulnerable = (100 - M)

Now,
We are given that 0.8M = 16% of T
i.e. M (vulnerable employees) = 20 and,
100 - M (Not vulnerable employees) = 80

Therefore, number of employees who are vulnerable and are less than 17 years old = 0.2(20) = 4
Complete rest of the table.

Col. A: \(\frac{24}{40} = 60\)%
Col. B: \(24\)%

Hence, option A
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   05 Dec 2021, 03:39
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KarunMendiratta wrote:
Explanation:

Refer to the table;
Let the total number of employees be 100
Vulnerable employees be M
So, Not vulnerable = (100 - M)

Now,
We are given that 0.8M = 16% of T
i.e. M (vulnerable employees) = 20 and,
100 - M (Not vulnerable employees) = 80

Therefore, number of employees who are vulnerable and are less than 17 years old = 0.2(20) = 4
Complete rest of the table.

Col. A: \(\frac{24}{40} = 60\)%
Col. B: \(24\)%

Hence, option A



Could you explain as to how did you understand that we have to do 24 (not vulnerable and 17 or more)/40(total 17 or more) and not 24/100? Because I fell for the language trap and did 24 / 100 (total number). :/
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2024, 02:53
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dirroo wrote:
KarunMendiratta wrote:
Explanation:

Refer to the table;
Let the total number of employees be 100
Vulnerable employees be M
So, Not vulnerable = (100 - M)

Now,
We are given that 0.8M = 16% of T
i.e. M (vulnerable employees) = 20 and,
100 - M (Not vulnerable employees) = 80

Therefore, number of employees who are vulnerable and are less than 17 years old = 0.2(20) = 4
Complete rest of the table.

Col. A: \(\frac{24}{40} = 60\)%
Col. B: \(24\)%

Hence, option A



Could you explain as to how did you understand that we have to do 24 (not vulnerable and 17 or more)/40(total 17 or more) and not 24/100? Because I fell for the language trap and did 24 / 100 (total number). :/


same here? Can anyone please explain
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2024, 03:06
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The question is asking you

Percent employees, that are 17 years old or more, and are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection


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employees who are >17 years old or equal to 17 years old and are NOT affected

in the table the intersection between these two criteria is 24

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The number is 24 OVER the total which is forty (40)

The result \(\frac{20}{40} \times 100 = 60\)

A is the answer
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2024, 03:12
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2024, 04:51
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The question is asking you

Percent employees, that are 17 years old or more, and are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection


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employees who are >17 years old or equal to 17 years old and are NOT affected

in the table the intersection between these two criteria is 24

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The number is 24 OVER the total which is forty (40)

The result \(\frac{20}{40} \times 100 = 60\)

A is the answer


Understood. thank you so much :)
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2024, 05:23
KarunMendiratta wrote:
Explanation:

Refer to the table;
Let the total number of employees be 100
Vulnerable employees be M
So, Not vulnerable = (100 - M)

Now,
We are given that 0.8M = 16% of T
i.e. M (vulnerable employees) = 20 and,
100 - M (Not vulnerable employees) = 80

Therefore, number of employees who are vulnerable and are less than 17 years old = 0.2(20) = 4
Complete rest of the table.

Col. A: \(\frac{24}{40} = 60\)%
Col. B: \(24\)%

Hence, option A


Why did you calculate percent employees over 40 and not 100?
Because the wording is ambiguous. Percent employees of total employees or percent employees of employees who are 17 or more?
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In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2024, 08:03
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Please see my explanation above.

We did extensively

https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/in-an- ... ml#p117420

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The # of employee is 24 over the total 40 NOT 100

Please refer to the overlapping sets theory
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In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   25 Jul 2024, 23:29
If I may ask, are these two questions the same : What percentage of the employees, that are 17 years old or more, are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection? and Percent employees, that are 17 years old or more, and are not vulnerable to Mycobacterial infection
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   26 Jul 2024, 00:48
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technically yes sir.

why ?
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   26 Jul 2024, 02:20
Looks a bit confusing the way the question is worded.
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Re: In an investigation, it was found that 20% of the employees who are [#permalink] New post   26 Jul 2024, 05:09
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The portion of the sentence is more clear. Hpwever, rereading the second one, could be opk as well
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