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Interns at hospital -MGMAT test Question

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by iikarthik » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:15 am
At a certain hospital, 75% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep and report feeling tired during their shifts. At the same time, 70% of the interns who receive 6 or more hours of sleep report no feelings of tiredness. If 80% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep, what percent of the interns report no feelings of tiredness during their shifts?
6
14
19
20
81

Hi,
This is a MGMAT test Question.

Though the solution was given using some matrix method,i didnt get that.
can someone pls explain?

OA = 19

Thanks
karthik
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by ptandon » Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:23 pm
I got this question wrong when I first attempted it 3 weeks ago in the Practice Test. Never really tried to solve it at that time, since I decided to go through the concepts first.
I gave it a shot just now, and nailed it. Here's what I did:
Given: 75% interns who receive fewer than 8 hrs of sleep report feeling of tiredness.
Means: If 80% of interns receive fewer than 8 hrs of sleep, then only 5% do NOT report feeling of tiredness.

Given: 70% of interns who receive more than 8 hrs of sleep report feeling of tiredness.
Means: 14% of TOTAL interns do NOT feel tired, while 6% report feeling of tiredness.

Adding above the 5% and 14%, you get 19%.

You could also take the 75% (given fact) and add the 6% (calculated above), which gives you a total of 81% that feel tired.
Then calculate the % NOT tired as 100% - 81% = 19%.

Hope this helps.
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by GMATGuruNY » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:39 pm
iikarthik wrote:At a certain hospital, 75% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep and report feeling tired during their shifts. At the same time, 70% of the interns who receive 6 or more hours of sleep report no feelings of tiredness. If 80% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep, what percent of the interns report no feelings of tiredness during their shifts?
6
14
19
20
81

Hi,
This is a MGMAT test Question.

Though the solution was given using some matrix method,i didnt get that.
can someone pls explain?

OA = 19

Thanks
karthik
In this problem we have two groups (those who got less than 6 hours sleep and those who got 6 hours or more) being further divided into smaller groups (those who were tired and those who were not).

When a problem discusses groups being further divided into smaller groups, use the group grid to organize the information.

The attached .pdf gives step by step instructions for filling out the grid. The idea is that all the numbers in the grid have to add up horizontally and vertically.

Hope this helps!
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by sumanr84 » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:03 am
iikarthik wrote:At a certain hospital, 75% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep and report feeling tired during their shifts...
Mistake generally happens due to wrong understanding of above line and to comprehend the same into grid.
GMATGuruNY has explained really well..
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