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Hi,

I assume you are referring to the first statement there, the reason for this is that the question clearly states "Among the subjects that were underspent", this means that the superset we are taking into consideration to evaluate is already concerned only with negative devations.

Hope this helps clarify! :)
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I don’t quite agree with the solution. For the second part of the question, It has mentioned that only magnitude of the percent deviation is to be considered.
I'm not sure why are we considering only negative lowest as the smallest.
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Hi miag,

Thanks for the clarification. I might have missed the Underspent part completely. Now the answer make sense.

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Hi,

I assume you are referring to the first statement there, the reason for this is that the question clearly states "Among the subjects that were underspent", this means that the superset we are taking into consideration to evaluate is already concerned only with negative devations.

Hope this helps clarify! :)
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I don’t quite agree with the solution. the first row says deviation in magnitude this means the sign does not need to be considered and hence literature cannot be the second smallest
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I don’t quite agree with the solution. the first row says deviation in magnitude this means the sign does not need to be considered and hence literature cannot be the second smallest
“Magnitude” means that the sign is ignored, but the comparison is still only among the subjects that were underspent.

The underspent subjects are:

History: 13.5
Literature: 7.9
Computer Science: 7.0

So, in magnitude, the second-smallest percentage deviation is 7.9, which is Literature. Therefore, the solution is correct.
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