Vacation Days (DS)

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Vacation Days (DS)

by The Duke » Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:29 am
Last year, the five employees of Company X took an average of 16 vacation days each. What was the average number of vacation days taken by the same employees this year?

(1) Three employees had a 50% increase in their number of vacation days, and two employees had a 50% decrease.

(2) Three employees had 10 more vacation days each, and two employees had 5 fewer vacation days each.

Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
Both statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER one ALONE is sufficient.
EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
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by The Duke » Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:32 am
Official Answer is B.

The question ask how many Vacation Days are Taken, not how many Vacation days the combined employee had.

Thus I choose E. since technically no information is given on # of days taken. For example, employees can accumulate the days but not actually take them

My question, is how do u know when to assume a question is actually asking something not totally different then whats given.