Degree and Experience

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Degree and Experience

by GmatKiss » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:26 am
At a certain company, some of the employees have advanced degrees, some have one year or more of work experience, and some have both. If 20 percent of all employees have one year or more of experience and no advanced degree, what percentage of employees have advanced degrees and less than one year of experience?

(1) 35 percent of the employees do not have advanced degrees and 55 percent have less than one year of work experience.

(2) 15 percent of the employees lack an advanced degree and have less than one year of work
experience; 45 percent have one year or more of experience.
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by GmatMathPro » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:17 pm
Set up a chart:

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The entries in black reflect information given before the statements. The entries in red represent information given in each statement, and the entries in blue represent information that can be deduced from the numbers in red by completing the chart. With either statement, we can deduce that 40% of employees have advanced degrees with less than one year experience.

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