FSOT: 500 Test Prep Study Questions - Question List

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241. Your firm conducted an advertising campaign to reach a target audience of young people ages 14 to 25. The campaign was designed using information about the target audience gathered in a statistical study of a random sample from this larger population. The campaign failed to reach the target audience effectively, due perhaps to:
  1. using too small of a sample size
  2. misinterpretation of data
  3. the use of qualitative data
  4. A and B
242. Annual raises in your department were determined by a merit system and have been noted in the following chart. What is the approximate average salary increase in your department?

Employee Original Salary New Salary
John $48,000 $52,000
Jane $54,000 $60,000
Jim $37,000 $47,000
Jill $68,000 $75,000
Jeff $78,000 $89,000
  1. 8%
  2. 10%
  3. 14%
  4. 18%
243. You are considering organizing your staff into teams to tackle upcoming projects. When looking at the permutations of team organization, you are considering:
  1. how many teams can be effectively created
  2. how many people should be on each team
  3. how many ways people can be organized into teams
  4. how many projects can be tackled at one time
244. Your departmental budget for last year was $765,000. Your budget for this year reflects a 15% increase. You have decided to use 85% of the increase to add additional personnel. Which of the following scenarios would fit into your budget and use the largest portion of the available funds?
  1. You decide to hire two additional clerks at annual salaries of $28,000 each and one additional analyst at a salary of $40,000.
  2. You decide to hire two additional analysts at a salary of $38,000 each and one additional secretary at an annual salary of $39,000.
  3. You decide to hire two additional clerks and two additional secretaries each at annual salaries of $28,500.
  4. You decide to hire three additional analysts each at an annual salary of $36,500.
245. You are presented with a list of material measurements for a project from Germany. All materials are listed in metric measurements. What would be the most comparable measurement for materials described in kilograms:
  1. inches
  2. pounds
  3. quarts
  4. tons

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