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by mridula » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:50 am
At a certain company, each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5. Each employee receives an hourly wage p, in dollars, determined by the formula p = 9.50 + 0.25(s – 1). An employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 1?
A. $0.50
B. $1.00
C. $1.25
D. $1.50
E. $1.75


My answer was B, but the OA is C. I don't understand how it can be though....
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Re: Salary

by x2suresh » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:05 am
mridula wrote:At a certain company, each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5. Each employee receives an hourly wage p, in dollars, determined by the formula p = 9.50 + 0.25(s – 1). An employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 1?
A. $0.50
B. $1.00
C. $1.25
D. $1.50
E. $1.75


My answer was B, but the OA is C. I don't understand how it can be though....
it should be B (1.00$)

What is the source? I believe OA is wrong
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Re: Salary

by marcusking » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:06 am
mridula wrote:At a certain company, each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5. Each employee receives an hourly wage p, in dollars, determined by the formula p = 9.50 + 0.25(s – 1). An employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 1?
A. $0.50
B. $1.00
C. $1.25
D. $1.50
E. $1.75


My answer was B, but the OA is C. I don't understand how it can be though....
I also get B. Hopefully someone will be able to help both of us :)
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Re: Salary

by mridula » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:24 am
x2suresh wrote:
mridula wrote:At a certain company, each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5. Each employee receives an hourly wage p, in dollars, determined by the formula p = 9.50 + 0.25(s – 1). An employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 1?
A. $0.50
B. $1.00
C. $1.25
D. $1.50
E. $1.75


My answer was B, but the OA is C. I don't understand how it can be though....
it should be B (1.00$)

What is the source? I believe OA is wrong

well, i can't really say it is a a very dependable source.... but it is from some GMAT problem sets I downloaded from the Internet. I don't really know who created those sets.
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by awesomeusername » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:04 pm
Yeah, the answer is obviously (B).
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by pnvpratik » Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:36 pm
Yes I also get the answer as B while the answer sheet says C
I also downloaded the sets from internet...
I am starting to have doubts on the correctness of the answer sheet.

I found 2-3 answers as dubious in the one which I gave ...
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