The following data describes the staff of a Five Star Corporation across Professional and Managerial grades. The women in the Professional grade number 90 in all, spread across categories that include Legal with 30 and HR with 15. The women in the Managerial grade number 30 in all. There are five times as many men in the Professional grade as there are women in that grade. The Corporation employs a total of 1300 staff across the Professional and Managerial grades together, and these two grades form 8 percent of the total workforce. Based on the data, answer the questions that follow.
What percentage of the women in the Professional grades is in Legal and HR combined?
The figure is 50 percent, so the answer is 50 percent.
The women in the Professional grade number 90 in all.
Legal has 30 of these women and HR has 15.
So Legal and HR together have 30 plus 15, which is 45 women.
So 45 is taken as a percentage of 90.
45 out of 90 is 50 percent.
So the answer is 50 percent.
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