Percent of Male athletes

[El Cucu]

Of a gropu of people, 44% are male, and 74% are athletes. If 15% of the female are not athletes, what percent of the people are male athletes?

[tdadic84]

can you please post questions with answer choices...thanks

[vittalgmat]

I get 33%
What is the OA?

Next time, pls post the answer choices and OA (OA within the spoiler).

thanks
-V

[gmat740]

Let the Entire Group size to Be 100( for simplified calculations)

M ==> 44

no. of F(female) ==> 100 - 44 = 56

A(athlete) = 74% = 74

Now 15% of F not A

Thus 0.15* 56 not A
= 8.4 not A
So females who are athlete

56- 8.4 = 47.2

Now Male who are athletes = Total - Female Athletes

= 74 - 47.2 = 26.8

So % of Male Athletes is 26.8%

Although the method is correct, but I made some calculation error,
Now I hope everything is fine.

[nawaab007]

I got 26. Can somebody pls post the OA.

[NethraN]

@gmat740

So F(female) ==> 100 - 44 = 66

Be careful and avoid such mistakes. We all panic and tend to make silly mistakes but we have to avoid them.

[PAB2706]

i got answer 33%

[gmat740]

@NethraN

I am soo sorry.

I don't know How I made this mistake this is going to extremely fatal for me.

Thanks a lot by the way for Pointing out the mistake.

I will edit it.

Karan

[Morgoth]

OA?

[gmat740]

What if we are given two options like
a.26
b.27

the answer by proper working is shown above(26.8%)

[El Cucu]

I get 33%
What is the OA?

Next time, pls post the answer choices and OA (OA within the spoiler).

thanks
-V

OA is 26,

We can not use double chart entry as there are subgroups right? tks