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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employ 22 Jan 2015, 07:36
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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employees have advanced degrees, and the rest have a college degree only. If 80 employees are males with college degree only, how many are females with advanced degrees?

A. 60
B. 80
C. 100
D. 120
E. 160

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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employ 23 Jan 2015, 00:03
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Total Emp: 300
Female: 200; Male = 100

200 = Advanced degrees
100 = College Degrees

80 - Male college degrees
100- 80 = 20 female college degrees

if 20 Female have college degree then 120-20 = 100 will have advanced degrees.
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Answer = C = 100

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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employ 12 Mar 2015, 06:58
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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employees have advanced degrees, and the rest have a college degree only. If 80 employees are males with college degree only, how many are females with advanced degrees?

A. 60
B. 80
C. 100
D. 120
E. 160

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MAGOOSH OFFICIAL SOLUTION:

This problem is handled best with a double-matrix solution.
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Because there are 120 females, we know the rest are males. Because there are 200 with advanced degrees, we know there are 100 with college degrees only.
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At this point, we could go either way: we could figure out all the numbers in the “college” row or all the numbers in the “male” column.
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Either way, it is easy to fill in the last box:
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Thus, there are 100 employees who are females with advanced degrees.

Answer = (C).
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PareshGMAT's reply uses the method taught in Manhattan GMAT books. I find this method very useful for such cases (even better than venn diagram's). i highly recommend implementing this method for such problems.
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In a company of 300 employees, 120 are females. A total of 200 employees have advanced degrees, and the rest have a college degree only. If 80 employees are males with college degree only, how many are females with advanced degrees?

A. 60
B. 80
C. 100
D. 120
E. 160

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Solution:

Since there are 120 female employees, there are 300 - 120 = 180 male employees. Since there are 80 male employees with college degrees only, there are 180 - 80 = 100 male employees with advanced degrees. Finally since 200 employees have advanced degrees, there are 200 - 100 = 100 female employees with advanced degrees.

Answer: C
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