About ________ percent of all U.S.jobs are in the public sector,________ percent of public school employees were excluded from the total and counted instead under education (consumer)services.
A) 45; 30
B) 25; 13
C) 16; 9
D) 10; 7
E) 8; 4

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

According to the text, "About 16 percent of all U.S.jobs are in the public sector" and "15 percent of public school employees were excluded from the total and counted instead under education (consumer) services." Therefore, to get the percentage of all public sector employees, we need to subtract the excluded public school employees from the total public sector employees. This gives us 16% - 15% = 1%. Therefore, the best choice is C: 16% for all U.S. jobs in the public sector and 9% for public school employees.

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