A company has 800 employees.
440 of these 800 employess are males.
176 of these employees are under 25 years old.
a) What percentages of males are employed by this company?
b) What percentage of employees are under 25?
Hi F_F- the point I was trying to make was that as the question stands I'd want to know what the overall number of males was in the population. If it's 30 million I'd say the answer is 440 as a percentage of 30 million
I remember a question asking something like "What is the difference between 17 and 44?" I assume the answer the examiner wanted was 27 but I felt answers such as "one is even and the other is odd" or "17 is a prime number whereas 44 isn't " were equally valid
Badly-worded questions are one thing: I saw a teacher set a question with a shape that was physically impossible. And then, he pressed on with trying to answer the question despite knowing this! I pointed this out... and got thrown out of the classroom. Apparently his teaching authority meant more to him than teaching the right things. It was horrific to watch, especially when despite knowing that the shape was physically impossible he carried on pressing ahead with answering the question, and inviting students to guess at side lengths etc.-- and telling them that their guesses were "wrong"...