In one year,you meet 52 people who are each unemployed for one week and eight people who are each unemployed for the whole year.What percentage of the unemployment spells you encountered was short term,and what percentage of the unemployment you encountered in a given week was long term?
A)52% was short term;13.3% was long term
B)52% was short term;88.9% was long term
C)86.7% was short term;13.3% was long term
D)86.7% was short term;88.9% was long term

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There are 60 unemployment spells (52 short-term + 8 long-term), so 86.7% (52/60) are short-term. In any given week, 8 out of 9 unemployed people are long-term, so 88.9% (8/9) are long-term.

In One Year,you Meet 52 People Who Are Each Unemployed