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Five bank branches in rows; columns: deposits (millions), loans (millions), employees, default rate (percent). Sortable.
Branch	Deposits ($M)	Loans ($M)	Employees	Default rate (%)
Harbor	240	180	30	1.5
Linden	360	300	60	0.9
Quincy	150	220	25	2.4
Ashby	200	160	20	1.1
Forge	280	260	40	1.8

The table shows five retail bank branches: total deposits in millions of dollars, total loans in millions of dollars, the number of employees, and the loan default rate, the percentage of loan balances in default. The table can be sorted by any column. For each statement, select Yes if it must be true based only on the data shown; otherwise select No.

(1) The branch with the most deposits also has the most deposits per employee: . (2) Among the branches with more than $200 million in loans, every one has a default rate below 2.0 percent: . (3) From the data shown, it can be determined which branch has the highest ratio of loans to deposits: .

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Answer & Explanation

Correct answer

1: No · 2: No · 3: Yes

One statement builds a per-employee ratio, one restricts to a subset before testing a property, and one asks only whether a ratio can be determined.

Deposits per employee is deposits divided by employees: Harbor $8.0M, Linden $6.0M, Quincy $6.0M, Ashby $10.0M, Forge $7.0M.

Statement 1 - No. The branch with the most deposits is Linden at $360M, but its $6.0M per employee is tied for the lowest; the highest is Ashby at $10.0M. So the largest branch by deposits is not the most productive per employee, and the statement is false. The trap is to assume the biggest branch leads on every measure.

Statement 2 - No. The claim is only about branches with more than $200M in loans: Linden ($300M), Quincy ($220M), and Forge ($260M). Harbor and Ashby are out. Within that subset the default rates are Linden 0.9, Forge 1.8, and Quincy 2.4. Quincy is at 2.4 percent, not below 2.0, so the every-one claim fails and the statement is false. The trap is to scan all five rates and be reassured by the low ones, or to check the small-loan branches that the claim excludes.

Statement 3 - Yes. The table prints no loans-to-deposits column, but it gives both loans and deposits, so the ratio is computable: Harbor 0.75, Linden 0.83, Quincy 1.47, Ashby 0.80, Forge 0.93. The highest is Quincy, so the answer can be determined. The statement asks only whether it can be determined, and it can. The trap is to answer No because no such column is shown, or to pick Linden for its largest raw loan total; the ratio favors the smaller Quincy.

The lesson: a per-employee figure is built not read, a subset claim is tested only on its subset, and a ratio you can compute is determinable. Correct answers: No / No / Yes.