- AHow many clerks does the exchange employ?
- BHow many of those on the register found work in the years before the exchange's present way of working began, and how many of last year's 6,200 found their work through the exchange rather than by their own efforts?
- CIn which of the district's towns does the exchange sit?
- DWhat fee, if any, is charged for registering with the exchange?
Step-by-Step Solution
The 6,200 is a number of people who found work while their names happened to be on a register, and it becomes a measure of the exchange only when it is set against what the register yielded in earlier years and stripped of those who would have found work anyway. The question asked does both. Without it, an exchange that does nothing but keep names would report the same 6,200 in a district whose factories were hiring. How many clerks the exchange employs bears on its cost, where it sits on its convenience, and the registration fee on what a job-seeker pays; none of them tells us whether the exchange made any difference to the 6,200.
Answer: B) How many of those on the register found work in the years before the exchange's present way of working began, and how many of last year's 6,200 found their work through the exchange rather than by their own efforts?