Quick Maths Question

Shicky · 4 Apr 2010 at 15:15

Doing numeracy tests for a job and this question has confused me. Basically its about extraction coal from a mine. It says the rate of extraction is 46,324 tonnes per year. It also states there is 68.27 million tonnes remaining.

The question asks when it can expect the mine to run out of coal, the answers provided range between 1.5years and 7.5years. Can anybody answer this? To me it seems the answer would be waaaay over the options

Shicky · 4 Apr 2010 at 15:29

I thought I was just being a special kind of retarded because im hungover but I guess it must be wrong. The correct answer is 1.5years according to it. I didn't expect to see any mistakes as its the SHL guys that many companies use for these assessments

Shicky · 4 Apr 2010 at 15:37

Nope, im staring at the question right now, definately not got the wrong figures

Shicky · 4 Apr 2010 at 15:51

Its numerical reasoning tests so they dont use progressive questions. In fact it was the second question and the first didn't relate. You're just given a table with this information and must calculate the answers based on the information. I guess its just a random mistake, I haven't read it wrong