单选题
单选题
Of people 20 years of age or older, approximately how many more males than females were unem-ployed in 1997?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】The difference between the number of male and female job leavers was insignificant, so ignore them. Among the males, there were about 1.8 million job losers and 0.7 million reentrants, a total of 2.5 million. Among the females, there were about 1.05-1.1 million in each of those two categories, a total of 2.1-2.2 million. This represents a difference of 300-400,000—say, 350,000. Finally, there were about 50,000 more female than male new entrants, so there were approximately 300,000 more males unemployed than females. Note that your figures might be slightly different, but the answer choices are so far apart, that you should definitely choose B.
单选题
In 1997, of the unemployed males 20 years of age or older, what percent were unemployed because they had lost their jobs?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】Adding up the number of males in each category, we see that there were appoximately 3 million unemployed males of whom 1.8 million were job losers, which is 60%.