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PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17)

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PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   20 Nov 2008, 10:12
Company policies require every project group to have an even number of employees, include representatives of at least 3 ethnic minorities (Asians, African and Hispanic Americans), contain at least 33% women, and at least one supervisor with an MBA degree per 5 employees. The company is planning to start a lithium panel project together with a Taiwanese partner. The team will include 3 top scientists and 2 assistants from Taiwan. With the following additional employees available, what is the smallest team size to make sure that the project meets the policy requirements?

Name Sex Degree Ethnicity
Albert male LLM American
Bethany female MBA American
Boon male M.S. Asian (Singapore)
Chicako female B.A. Asian (Japan)
Godwin male M.A. African (Nigeria)
Grace female B.A. American
Helen female M.S. African American
Jamal male MBA African American
John male MBA American
Maria female Ph.D. Hispanic American
Peter male MBA American
Rachael female B.A. American

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11
10
9
8

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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? [#permalink] New post   20 Nov 2008, 10:39
looks to be C..

you just assign 1 female mba as the manger of the tiwanese group, then you hire one african american mba, higher 2 female (1 hispanic, 1 other) and 1 hispanic male..
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2008, 10:40
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Company policies require every project group to have an even number of employees, include representatives of at least 3 ethnic minorities (Asians, African and Hispanic Americans), contain at least 33% women, and at least one supervisor with an MBA degree per 5 employees. The company is planning to start a lithium panel project together with a Taiwanese partner. The team will include 3 top scientists and 2 assistants from Taiwan. With the following additional employees available, what is the smallest team size to make sure that the project meets the policy requirements?

Name Sex Degree Ethnicity
Albert male LLM American
Bethany female MBA American
Boon male M.S. Asian (Singapore)
Chicako female B.A. Asian (Japan)
Godwin male M.A. African (Nigeria)
Grace female B.A. American
Helen female M.S. African American
Jamal male MBA African American
John male MBA American
Maria female Ph.D. Hispanic American
Peter male MBA American
Rachael female B.A. American

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11
10
9
8


Asians (do not know their gender) = 3 scientist + 2 assistants from Tawain = 5
Female & MBA = Bethany (female) MBA American = 1
African = Godwin male M.A. African (Nigeria) = 1
Hispanic = Maria female Ph.D. Hispanic American = 1
Need 1 more MBA = Jamal (male) MBA African American or Peter (male) MBA American = 1
Nedd 1 more to make even = chose anyone that is not repeated above = 1

yeah its 10.
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2008, 13:04
10 is correct, but the question is who did it just in 2 min? :-D
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? [#permalink] New post   12 Feb 2009, 23:38
GMAT TIGER wrote:
Asians (do not know their gender) = 3 scientist + 2 assistants from Tawain = 5
Female & MBA = Bethany (female) MBA American = 1
African = Godwin male M.A. African (Nigeria) = 1
Hispanic = Maria female Ph.D. Hispanic American = 1
Need 1 more MBA = Jamal (male) MBA African American or Peter (male) MBA American = 1
Nedd 1 more to make even = chose anyone that is not repeated above = 1

yeah its 10.


GT,
Can you please explain your reasoning, how did you arrive at this, you must have kept your eye on the ratio, no?
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? [#permalink] New post   30 Jan 2010, 02:27
atletikos wrote:
10 is correct, but the question is who did it just in 2 min? :-D

Seems like nobody...... :)
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2010, 06:10
The question asks for smallest team size possible with the stated restrictions. Why do we assume that none of the 3 scientists and 2 assistants will not fit any of the restrictions? For example one of the 2 assistants can be of Asian ethinicity and a female.
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2011, 09:12
the best hint in this querstion was that the team has an even number of employees.

so just take
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10 and
8. and then
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if u are smart then guess. :P
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2011, 09:46
yeh 10, you can club minorities and females together to consider both cases - 3 minorities of 10 and 33% female.
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2011, 22:45
When I saw this problem in the test I knew right away that I wasn't going to solve this within 2 minutes, so I had to make an educated guess and move on.

The only way I could guess was to consider the restriction that covers the largest number of people and that's 1 MBA for every 5 employees. So there's a maximum of 4 MBAs in the list, so the team size could be 5,10,15 or 20 and 10 is the only one that matches one of the answer choices....did I get this reasoning correct?

If this is wrong, how else does one complete this problem within 2 minutes?
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Re: PS: Can you do this under 2 minutes? (m07q17) [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2011, 23:00
Fun problem. Once you realize Jamal has to be in the group and you have to then switch to either 3 or 4 women, guessing 10 is quick even if you didn't catch the "even" hint. I don't mind going over 2 minutes on this one to get it right. I was under three though.

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