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If the productivity of a brigade grows by 10% when the number of the workers in the brigade is increased by one, then which of the following is closest to the ratio of the productivity of a 12-person brigade to that of a 10-person brigade?
A. 0.21
B. 0.82
C. 1.20
D. 1.21
E. 1.44
Question Discussion & Explanation
Correct Answer - D - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)
Verbal
Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.
(A) dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads
(B) dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do
(C) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do
(D) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads
(E) to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads
Question Discussion & Explanation
Correct Answer - B - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)
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