Are more than one half of the females at the company married with

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Are more than one half of the females at the company married with children?

(1) 51% of the workforce is female and married.
(2) 49% of the workforce is male, married and has children; the rest of the workforce are females and have children.

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RajLfcMo · Answer

Please explain how its C, I marked E as Combining both the statements, we are getting 51% female have children and 51% female are married, how it is denoting more than half are married and children

ag821 · Answer

Please share the OA explanation

Yosemite98 · Answer

(1) 51% of the workforce is female and married. -> clearly not sufficient

(2) 49% of the workforce is male, married and has children; the rest of the workforce are females and have children. -> not sufficient as 51% of workforce are females and have children, but how many of these are married? we do not know.

(1)+(2) we know that out of the 51% of workforce that are females and have children from statement two, all are married as it is the same number as in statement (1)

IMO C

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