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According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office. The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? a On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. b 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. c At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. d At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. e Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
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01 Aug 2009, 22:21
will go with B
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my answer is wrong. its not B. have checked OA at some other forum. so guys push yourself to think little harder GS
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I guess C
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sudeep wrote: I guess C why do you think so!
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According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
IMO C
let set A be the set of people who feel they are more productive at home
let set B be the set of people who work less than 1 hour at home
P(A) = 90%
P(B) = 25%
let P(A union B) = 100%
So.. P(A union B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A intersect B)
So.. P(A intersect B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A union B)
So P(A intersect B) >= 90 + 25 - 100 = 15
P(A intersect B) is nothing but 15 percent of the office employees who do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked....It defines productivity both in terms of number of hours worked from home and in terms of number of hours worked less than 1 hour at home.
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02 Aug 2009, 04:39
c its the only choice whichv cannot reject ...... other talk about productivity n all
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E for easy... Posted from my mobile device 
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17 Aug 2009, 12:08
IMO D..what is the OA
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17 Aug 2009, 17:25
i thought B would be right but got it wrong. "over 90% ...." so less than 10% is less productive...
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C. 90 percent of the office employees believe that they are more productive at home than at work. At the same time, 25 percent of the office employees actually work fewer hours when they work at home than when they work at the office. The overlap between these two groups is at least 15 percent of all of the office employees. This group of employees believes that they are more productive at home than at work and yet this group actually works fewer hours at home than at work. Thus, these employees must not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.
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Can somebody tell /guess the difficulty level of this question, I think this would be one of the toughest that I have seen.
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IMO it is C guys. This is more of a mathematical problem. Eliminate A and E as it is somewhat Out of scope. Now the battle is between B,C and D. B- makes a brave statement about productivity that is not mentioned or can be inferred. D-At least 25% can complete the same amount of work in 1hr?? where did they deduce this  from So the left out choice is C The OA is C as well.
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Pure Mathematics. I have posted a picture too so that conclusion can be drawn easily. As you can see that R1C1-> atleast 15% feel productive at home, a fact that these people do not define productivity in terms of number of hours worked. Nice question though MGMAT.
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Hi marcab, You have applied Overlapping sets to this problem , I must say you will apply management techniques with 100% perfection to real time industrial issues. Great going. Rgds, Saurabh
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According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office. The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? a On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office. Generic statement. Passage Scope: those office employees who typically work 8 hours. b 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office. Generic statement. Passage Scope: those office employees who typically work 8 hours. c At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked. d At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office. OFS. Passage do not mention about the amount of work e Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true. We can not question the premiseTherefore, IMO C
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