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According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article?
a)On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office.
b)10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office.
c)At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.
d)At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office.
e)Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
Please elaborate the approach used to solve this one.
[spoiler]What I did wrong in this one: I understood that both the statements are factually different and that there is no link between them.
1)"of those office employees who typically work 8 hours...": Office employees are categorized into "one that work for 8 hours and say they will work at home..." and the other one logically opposite to it.
2) "over 90 percent of those same office employees...": I thought of "same office", "same" being an adverb here, instead of "same office employee", "same" being an adjective for "office employees".
Please tell me how I can correct this sort of error.[/spoiler]
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article?
a)On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office.
b)10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office.
c)At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.
d)At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office.
e)Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
Please elaborate the approach used to solve this one.
[spoiler]What I did wrong in this one: I understood that both the statements are factually different and that there is no link between them.
1)"of those office employees who typically work 8 hours...": Office employees are categorized into "one that work for 8 hours and say they will work at home..." and the other one logically opposite to it.
2) "over 90 percent of those same office employees...": I thought of "same office", "same" being an adverb here, instead of "same office employee", "same" being an adjective for "office employees".
Please tell me how I can correct this sort of error.[/spoiler]
