experts.. please explain!!advita wrote:At a certain company, each employee has either an office or a cubicle. If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?
(1) The employees outnumber the cubicles 3 to 2.
(2) There are 50 offices.
ok..its esay..>>>but what exactly statment 1 says..!!
My doubt may sound sillyanshumishra wrote:c- no. of cubicles
o- no. of offices
e = c+o -> no. of employees
We want to know, o/e = ?
Statement 2 : clearly Insufficient
Statement 1 :
e/c = 3/2 => c+o/c = 3/2
=> o/c = 1/2
=> o/e = o/(o+c) = 1/(1+2) = 1/3
Sufficient.
Hence A.
The question says : If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?prachich1987 wrote:My doubt may sound sillyanshumishra wrote:c- no. of cubicles
o- no. of offices
e = c+o -> no. of employees
We want to know, o/e = ?
Statement 2 : clearly Insufficient
Statement 1 :
e/c = 3/2 => c+o/c = 3/2
=> o/c = 1/2
=> o/e = o/(o+c) = 1/(1+2) = 1/3
Sufficient.
Hence A.
But is it necessary that there is no office/cubicle which is empty
In the question they say"each employee has either an office or a cubicle"
Is the converse has to be true.
WHAT IS THE OA?
According to me if we assume that, then & then only we can answer, otherwise we can'tanshumishra wrote:The question says : If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?prachich1987 wrote:anshumishra wrote:c- no. of cubicles
o- no. of offices
e = c+o -> no. of employees
We want to know, o/e = ?
Statement 2 : clearly Insufficient
Statement 1 :
e/c = 3/2 => c+o/c = 3/2
=> o/c = 1/2
=> o/e = o/(o+c) = 1/(1+2) = 1/3
Sufficient.
Hence A.
My doubt may sound silly
But is it necessary that there is no office/cubicle which is empty
In the question they say"each employee has either an office or a cubicle"
Is the converse has to be true.
WHAT IS THE OA?
So, that means even if there are some offices vacant, we don't need to take those in account.
Hence in my solution
o-> no. of offices occupied by employees.
I don't know the OA.
Thanks
Let me use an example to make it clear :prachich1987 wrote:According to me if we assume that, then & then only we can answer, otherwise we can'tanshumishra wrote:The question says : If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?prachich1987 wrote:anshumishra wrote:c- no. of cubicles
o- no. of offices
e = c+o -> no. of employees
We want to know, o/e = ?
Statement 2 : clearly Insufficient
Statement 1 :
e/c = 3/2 => c+o/c = 3/2
=> o/c = 1/2
=> o/e = o/(o+c) = 1/(1+2) = 1/3
Sufficient.
Hence A.
My doubt may sound silly
But is it necessary that there is no office/cubicle which is empty
In the question they say"each employee has either an office or a cubicle"
Is the converse has to be true.
WHAT IS THE OA?
So, that means even if there are some offices vacant, we don't need to take those in account.
Hence in my solution
o-> no. of offices occupied by employees.
I don't know the OA.
Thanks
One of the step is below
o+c=e---according to which, office+cubicle=no.of employees
But its not necessary.
We can definitely say that 'o+c' is not lesser than 'e' as we know that only one employee can occupy a cubicle.
But may be o+c>e
I would be grateful if experts can reply
Thanks!It's clear nowanshumishra wrote:Let me use an example to make it clear :prachich1987 wrote:According to me if we assume that, then & then only we can answer, otherwise we can'tanshumishra wrote:The question says : If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?prachich1987 wrote:anshumishra wrote:c- no. of cubicles
o- no. of offices
e = c+o -> no. of employees
We want to know, o/e = ?
Statement 2 : clearly Insufficient
Statement 1 :
e/c = 3/2 => c+o/c = 3/2
=> o/c = 1/2
=> o/e = o/(o+c) = 1/(1+2) = 1/3
Sufficient.
Hence A.
My doubt may sound silly
But is it necessary that there is no office/cubicle which is empty
In the question they say"each employee has either an office or a cubicle"
Is the converse has to be true.
WHAT IS THE OA?
So, that means even if there are some offices vacant, we don't need to take those in account.
Hence in my solution
o-> no. of offices occupied by employees.
I don't know the OA.
Thanks
One of the step is below
o+c=e---according to which, office+cubicle=no.of employees
But its not necessary.
We can definitely say that 'o+c' is not lesser than 'e' as we know that only one employee can occupy a cubicle.
But may be o+c>e
I would be grateful if experts can reply
Lets assume there are 15 offices, 10 cubicles
And assume that 8 offices and 6 cubes are occupied by employees (means total 14 employees)
Then the % of employees which have offices = 8/14.
[See, you never need to bother about the 15 offices, 1o cubicles]
Using this example to my equation:
c=6
o=8
e=c+o = 14
We need to calculate : o/e = 8/14
Hope it is clear now.
Hi there,advita wrote:At a certain company, each employee has either an office or a cubicle. If each office or cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee, what percent of the employees have offices?
(1) The employees outnumber the cubicles 3 to 2.
(2) There are 50 offices.
many students would be messed-up, but mathematically speaking, we would guarantee that no place was left unoccupied, no people would be without place to sit, and it would have one person per place (bijection).At a certain company, each employee has either an office or a cubicle. If each office AND each cubicle is occupied by exactly one employee
