Question

please guys help me ...
You work for an insurance company. 80% of your company’s staff is sales force and 70% of your company’s sales force is male. In your company as a whole, 60% of the staff is male.

a) Create the Venn Diagram for this data. (Hints: Draw two circles, one represents “male” and the other represents “on the sale force”)
b. What portion of your company’s staff is male AND on the sales force?
c. What portion of your company’s staff is female AND on the sales force? @terenzreignz

Answer 1

Let's draw a Venn...

Answer 2

As per part (a) of your problem.

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

You usually go from middle out. So, what goes here?

Answer 5

Meaning, what percent is Male and Sales force?

Answer 6

dont reali have any idea about this one.:-)

Answer 7

80% are sales force, and 70% *of the sales force* are men.
So that makes how many percent of the work force total?

Answer 8

that makes 100 %

Answer 9

total

Answer 10

Hardly. :P

Answer 11

lol

Answer 12

How did you get 100%?

Answer 13

ok 80%

Answer 14

since 80 percent are the sales force

Answer 15

80% are sales force, but are all of them male?

Answer 16

no jjux 70 percent are

Answer 17

70% of what?

Answer 18

of men

Answer 19

70% of men are in the Sales Force?

Answer 20

yes

Answer 21

Then no :P

Answer 22

oh really..then please tell me

Answer 23

80% are sales force, and of these sales force, 70% are men.
So how many percent of the total labour force (everyone in the company) are both male and part of the sales force?

Answer 24

80 +70

Answer 25

150??

Answer 26

No. Wrong operation :P

Answer 27

oh lol.

Answer 28

Fix it.

Answer 29

erm i know that if 80% of the company's staff is sales force and out of that percentage 70 % are males then its only 10% out of the 80% that may be female or??

Answer 30

Yeah, sure, so what exactly does 70% OUT OF the 80% mean?

Answer 31

70 divided by 80 times 100?

Answer 32

Are you guessing? lol

Answer 33

yeah i am

Answer 34

Well, that's not really healthy, now is it? :P

Answer 35

lol.i know but you know i just dont know how to figure that out..okay maybe if u begin i would be able to follow..how about that?

Answer 36

<shrugs>
80% of the labour force are sales force
70% OF THE SALES FORCE are men.

Then, those of the sales force which are also men would be
\[\Large 70\% \times 80\% = 0.7\times0.8 =0.56 = 56\%\]
-.-

Answer 37

aww..kk let go on ..lol

Answer 38

What goes here?

Answer 39

24 %

Answer 40

Okay, good.
What about here?