In One Year, You Meet 52 People Who Are Each

Multiple Choice

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 ended within one week and therefore 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