Some question: There are 100 employees in a room. 99% are managers. How many managers must leave the room to bring down the percentage of manager to 98%?
Options:
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 50
(D) 49
(E) 97
Some stream of consciousness:
We have 99 managers and 1 director. That 1 director to compose 2% of the total number of people, there must be 50 people in the room, hence 50 managers must leave. The answer: (C).