Critical Reasoning (CR) | Half of Metroburg's operating budget comes from a payroll tax of 2 per

It isn't A for two reasons:

1) A substantial number of jobs would not be necessary to get the number below 1%. Even a small number would reduce it below 1%. The answer says specifically 1%, and the GMAT is extremely literal. If they say 1%, you can assume they mean 1.0000000000%.

2) We know nothing about how much the employees are paid. The tax is based on payroll (i.e., it's 2% of the workers' salaries), not on a per-employee basis (i.e., $X per
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