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In Company X, 30 percent of the employees live over ten miles from work and 60 percent of the employees who live over ten miles from work use car pools. If 40 percent of the employees of Company X use car pools, what percent of the employees of Company X live ten miles or less from work and use car pools?

(A) 12%
(B) 20%
(C) 22%
(D) 28%
(E) 32%

Answer: C
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Re: In Company X, 30 percent of the employees live over ten miles

by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:37 am
BTGModeratorVI wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:02 am
 In Company X, 30 percent of the employees live over ten miles from work and 60 percent of the employees who live over ten miles from work use car pools. If 40 percent of the employees of Company X use car pools, what percent of the employees of Company X live ten miles or less from work and use car pools?

(A) 12%
(B) 20%
(C) 22%
(D) 28%
(E) 32%

Answer: C
Source: Official Guide
One approach is to use the Double Matrix Method. This technique can be used for most questions featuring a population in which each member has two characteristics associated with it (aka overlapping sets questions).

Here, we have a population of employees , and the two characteristics are:
- lives over ten miles from work or doesn't live over ten miles from work
- uses carpool or doesn't use carpool

Here's how we can set up the Matrix:
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I'll let you complete the diagram.

This question type is VERY COMMON on the GMAT, so be sure to master the technique.

To learn more about the Double Matrix Method, watch this video: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat- ... ems?id=919

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Re: In Company X, 30 percent of the employees live over ten miles

by Scott@TargetTestPrep » Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:56 pm
BTGModeratorVI wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:02 am
 In Company X, 30 percent of the employees live over ten miles from work and 60 percent of the employees who live over ten miles from work use car pools. If 40 percent of the employees of Company X use car pools, what percent of the employees of Company X live ten miles or less from work and use car pools?

(A) 12%
(B) 20%
(C) 22%
(D) 28%
(E) 32%

Answer: C
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If there are 100 employees, then 30 employees live more than 10 miles from work, 0.6 x 30 = 18 employees live more than 10 miles from work and use car pools, and 40 employees use car pools. Therefore, 40 - 18 = 22, or 22%, of the employees live ten miles or less from work and use car pools.

Answer: C

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