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Problem
The vertical axis indicates the number of employees, but the scale was accidentally omitted from this graph. What percent of the employees at the Gauss company have worked there for 
years or more?
![[asy] for(int a=1; a<11; ++a) { draw((a,0)--(a,-.5)); } draw((0,10.5)--(0,0)--(10.5,0)); label("$1$",(1,-.5),S); label("$2$",(2,-.5),S); label("$3$",(3,-.5),S); label("$4$",(4,-.5),S); label("$5$",(5,-.5),S); label("$6$",(6,-.5),S); label("$7$",(7,-.5),S); label("$8$",(8,-.5),S); label("$9$",(9,-.5),S); label("$10$",(10,-.5),S); label("Number of years with company",(5.5,-2),S); label("X",(1,0),N); label("X",(1,1),N); label("X",(1,2),N); label("X",(1,3),N); label("X",(1,4),N); label("X",(2,0),N); label("X",(2,1),N); label("X",(2,2),N); label("X",(2,3),N); label("X",(2,4),N); label("X",(3,0),N); label("X",(3,1),N); label("X",(3,2),N); label("X",(3,3),N); label("X",(3,4),N); label("X",(3,5),N); label("X",(3,6),N); label("X",(3,7),N); label("X",(4,0),N); label("X",(4,1),N); label("X",(4,2),N); label("X",(5,0),N); label("X",(5,1),N); label("X",(6,0),N); label("X",(6,1),N); label("X",(7,0),N); label("X",(7,1),N); label("X",(8,0),N); label("X",(9,0),N); label("X",(10,0),N); label("Gauss Company",(5.5,10),N); [/asy]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/d/e/0/de076da1d134dd8be58ce99efedbd7b3a31e483b.png)
Solution
Let 
be the amount of people each 
represents. The percent of people that worked for five or more years is then
![\[\frac{2x+2x+2x+x+x+x}{5x+5x+8x+3x+2x+2x+2x+x+x+x}=30\% \rightarrow \boxed{\text{C}}.\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/5/4/d/54d8ec4ba3503ce17d56e4aa0463ea0c7e5b5874.png)
See Also
| 1991 AJHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 17 |
Followed by Problem 19 | |
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| All AJHSME/AMC 8 Problems and Solutions | ||
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