At least 100 employees in a certain company have management

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At least 100 employees in a certain company have management experience. If 15 percent of the employees in the company who have sales experience also have management experience, do more employees have sales experience than management experience?

(1) 72 employees in the company have both sales experience and management experience.
(2) 252 employees in the company have neither sales experience nor management experience.

d3thknell · Answer

A) should be the answer
consider 1) 72 employees have sales and management exp 
from question premise we know 15% of employees with sales exp also have management exp
so we can say 15% of (no. of employees in sales)=72
so, no. of sales employees =480

consider 2)252 employees have no exp in sales as well as management
this figure would have been useful if we were given info about total no. of employees in company.
hence only 1) is suff

vjalan · Answer

Without the "at least" in the first line, I would have said the answer is A. But the way I interpret the question, a minimum of 100 employees have managerial experience   (this is not the actual figure)  . So, if faced with this question in a real test, my answer would be  E . However, I may be wrong. Not totally sure.

dhyan · Answer

IMO-E
 
Since at least is a catch here. WE can not be sure that 100 emplyees have mgmt skill.

calvin1984 · Answer

+1 for E here. If it wasn't for the 'at least', I would've picked A

LGOdream · Answer

M>=100.
M&S=15%.

1) I'm a bit confused here. " If 15 percent of the employees in the company who have sales experience also have management experience ". Does this mean that 15% of the employees in the company have experience in both, or that out of the unknown percent of employees with sales experience, 15% also have experience in management?

In any case, I opt for the first.

(1) 72 employees in the company have both sales experience and management experience.

15% = 72, then 5% = 24.
M >= 20%
S >= 15%
Not Sufficient.

(2) 252 employees in the company have neither sales experience nor management experience.
Not Sufficient.

(1)+(2) we know that 47,5% have experience in S, M or both.
M >= 20%
S >= 15%

Still not sufficient.

Answer is E.

vjalan · Answer

it means that 15% of people with sales exp, also have managerial exp. It was the 2nd option in ur breakup.

dreambeliever · Answer

thanks guys.. OA is E.

shinbhu · Answer

Creating a table helps

----M----nM----T
S--0.15x--------x
nS-------252-----
T->=100----------

1. M & S = 0/15x = 72 -> x=480. But can't say for sure what M total is (>=100). insuff
2. nM & nS = 252. No info on S. insuff

Together, still can't determine what M total is. E.

jlgdr · Answer

I approached this simlarly using double set matrix

Question asks is S>M?

First statement

0.15x = 72
So x = 480

That's the number for total S

Now we know T>100 but we still can't tell if its >480

Insuff

Second Statement

No M and No S is 252

This is clearly Insuff as we don't know anything about total S

Statement (1) and Statement (2) combined

Let's call M and Not S 'a'

So we need to know if 72+a > 480

or if a>408

We cannot get this info from anywhere so it is Insuff

My take is E

Hope it helps
Cheers!
J

Therefore total is 480

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