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Integrated Reasoning : Frequency vs Cost of Employee Benefits 16 Sep 2017, 23:37
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Hi,

Could you please help me evaluate the below question? I'm unsure why one of my answers is incorrect.

I assumed that the breakfast served by employees of upper management would be considered free of costs - is that incorrect? Would the cost be their salaries? (which seems incorrect to me)
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Hi,

Could you please help me evaluate the below question? I'm unsure why one of my answers is incorrect.

I assumed that the breakfast served by employees of upper management would be considered free of costs - is that incorrect? Would the cost be their salaries? (which seems incorrect to me)
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Let C be the cost of a cup of coffee and let B be the cost of a breakfast.
F/C of coffee is 365/C and F/C of a breakfast is 1/B.
If we presume C < B, then we have 365/C > 1/B.

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Hi,

Could you please help me evaluate the below question? I'm unsure why one of my answers is incorrect.

I assumed that the breakfast served by employees of upper management would be considered free of costs - is that incorrect? Would the cost be their salaries? (which seems incorrect to me)


Let C be the cost of a cup of coffee and let B be the cost of a breakfast.
F/C of coffee is 365/C and F/C of a breakfast is 1/B.
If we presume C < B, then we have 365/C > 1/B.

Happy Studying !!!
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But this options only suggests that the breakfast is served by management (which could cost zero), it doesn't imply the breakfast is necessarily free... So I would also consider the denominator of the fraction to be zero...