Percentages SAT question

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Call Ratings
	1 Star	2 Stars	3 Stars	4 Stars	Total
Employee A	16	49	72	8	145
Employee B	4	10	22	34	70
Employee C	8	56	45	16	125
Employee D	22	42	84	12	160
Total	50	157	223	70	500

A supervisor at a call center reviewed 500 calls taken by four employees and rated the employees’ performance on each call on a scale from 1 star to 4 stars. The ratings for each employee are shown in the table above. According to the table, to the nearest whole percent, what percent of Employee A’s calls received a rating of 1 star?

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Choice B is correct. The percent of Employee A’s calls that received a rating of 1 star is the number of Employee A’s 1-star calls divided by the total number of Employee A’s calls. This quotient, $16 over 145$ , is approximately equal to $0 point 1 1 0 3$ , or $11 point 0 3 percent$ . To the nearest whole percent, this is 11%.

Choice A is incorrect. This is the percent of all calls taken by Employee A that received a rating of 1 star. Choice C is incorrect and may result from a conceptual error. For example, 16 is the number, not the percent, of calls taken by Employee A that received a rating of 1 star. Choice D is incorrect. This is the percent of all calls that received a rating of 1 star that were taken by Employee A.

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