Help with a question

[ash_scotland88]

been doing some online aptitude questions for practise (failing like anything on the maths) and came across this one:

Surely if the staff earn the same amount then the wage is equal across all factories?
Poorly worded or me being a div? I've given up on this test as there were other examples of other poorly worded questions and me not be able to get the answers they list.

 

[ash_scotland88]

I guessed that too.

So surely just must be a badly worded question? So i got factory 1.

 

[ash_scotland88]

It does seem like a strangely worded question, but the first part of the question assumes every staff member earns the same wage in each individual factory. As above, manufacturing wages/number of staff. So factory 1 pays the higest individual wage.

I get it now. I knew what they were asking but wasn't sure if the wording was right.

I'm really struggling with the maths questions. Things I haven't had to use in years. Basic %'s but not when it's stuff like "if X is 20% of Y and W is 57% more than A, calculate D's value"...bah to that!


edit:

I've done a verbal reasoning practise. I see these things are going to infuriate me. One of the questions was "was the university best in uni in 2005?" The only data revealed was that it was "the best university in 2010 and for the past 4years" simple maths brings this to 2006. The only other data for previous years was in regards to an other university for the past 10years.
I put "can not tell" as maybe there wasn't any data prior to this university's ranking prior to 2006 and no other data was given for the year 2005. So surely logical sense says that if no data was given to contradict how it was placed in 2005 it's safe to say that "can not tell" hell the uni might have only been founded in 2006, there was no data to give evidence for or against this questions.


*grumble grumble grumble*

 

[ash_scotland88]

Do you know if you were marked right on that question with "can not tell"? I'm asking because there's no point getting annoyed with it if you were understanding and answering it correctly.

Sorry missed that important point out. I got it wrong. The correct answer was "false."

Here it is. I still have the question open.

Maybe it's due to uni "training" and from customer services work, where if info is lacking you can't presume what should be there, instead you'd have to go out and find it either through more research or asking the customer.


edit2: A couple more. Am I being a really big idiot here:

It says "many young individuals are questioning wether going to university is..."

again "are becoming even hard for school leavers to obtain"...if anything it should be "can not say" as not all applicants are school leavers.

 

[ash_scotland88]

Thanks, the last two were taken from this test:
http://www.practiceaptitudetests.com/verbal-reasoning-tests/testverbb/

I got 10/18. A couple of the other ones I got wrong where much the same issues, the other couple I saw my mistake afterwards. I feel like emailing the company and asking their logic behind them.

Again the middle question could be answered with "cannot say" due to it not giving facts that the number questioning uni is considering, but it's safe to assume that they are due to the other increases.

 

[ash_scotland88]

I think the pertinent information is what was left out - they specifically mention that as of 2010 (and for the previous 4 years) Insead was the best in the World. A reasonable inference is that they wouldn't have specified the date that it became the best if it had been the best for longer.

However I can see why you'd choose "cannot say" because it's not explicit there, it's an inference.



You're right in the sentence you've picked out but note that it doesn't state that the numbers of young individuals questioning it is increasing - it may be that "many" have always questioned it.

Again though I could see why an answer of "cannot say" would be plausible. Picking "True" suggests that you've used knowledge outside that stated to fill in the gaps - you may be perfectly right but it's not explicitly stated as so.



I might well have gone with cannot say there but it appears this particular test is treating an absence of explicit information as a negative and that would explain the first question also. If that's the way that the tests you will sit is worked then I'm afraid you'll simply have to approach it in that way.

Thanks, very insightful. Sadly I doubt there would be practise questions for the one(s) I'll actually sit. I wonder if instead of the tests testing right/wrong it's designed to try and test the logic of the participant?
Either way I see it depending on the logic of the person that wrote the test and nothing more than that. Glass half filled type thing between, empty, full and "just half"