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At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  Updated on: 16 Feb 2012, 09:23
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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.

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Originally posted by dreambeliever on 25 Dec 2011, 10:17.
Last edited by Bunuel on 16 Feb 2012, 09:23, edited 1 time in total.
Edited the question and added the OA
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  26 Dec 2011, 02:54
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
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  26 Dec 2011, 03:14
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.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  26 Dec 2011, 10:14
IMO-E

Since at least is a catch here. WE can not be sure that 100 emplyees have mgmt skill.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  28 Dec 2011, 03:30
+1 for E here. If it wasn't for the 'at least', I would've picked A
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  28 Dec 2011, 07:57
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.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  28 Dec 2011, 09:07
LGOdream wrote:
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.


it means that 15% of people with sales exp, also have managerial exp. It was the 2nd option in ur breakup.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  29 Dec 2011, 08:50
thanks guys.. OA is E.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  11 Jan 2012, 14:54
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.
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Re: At least 100 employees in a certain company have management [#permalink] New post  17 Jan 2014, 06:52
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

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Therefore total is 480
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