All of the members of club Y are either Democrats or

My answer is C...

A is insufficient because it only give you a relationship between the total no. of males and females without giving any numbers


B alone is insufficient because it gives you no idea how many female republicans thre would be


A and B together give number of republican males (53) and a relationship between the total number of males and females which enables you to calculate the ratio of males:females

the answer is C the ratio of male to female based on I and II will be

74/73

Well, I too get C as my answer and the OA is E. Mmm...unless some of the club member is...bisexual! Just kidding

What is the official explanation, Janice?

There´s no oficial explanation that´s why I posted this message,so one of you can help figuring out why E is the answer.

Sorry guys the answer is B and not E as I posted earlier...

There´s no oficial explanation that´s why I posted this message,so one of you can help figuring out why B is the answer

janice, thats a good DS problem. as far as explaning the OA - B, i can say that since Male Reps = Female Dem -> Male Reps = 53;

Male Dems + Male REps = 21+53 = 74 -> ratio of male to female is 74/53 which will only make sense if there are no Female Reps, who are not mentioned anywhere in the stem. does anyone else have an explanation of B??

i do not think that B could be the OA. it should be C.

the first sentence in the stem reads - in club Y all the members are either Dems or REps. then there are the figures for the M/F distribution of Dems. there is no mentioning that there HAVE to be female REps , hence B suggests that it could be theanswer. althought it is not a very convincing one it is a possibility. too bad, so is C. MA i see what you're saying. I think this question needs more info. janice where did you get it from ??

guys you´re gonna kill me!

I made a mistake in the post,the question should be:

All of the members of club Y are either Democrats or Republicans. If 1/2 of the male members and 3/5 of the female members are Democrats, what is the ratio of the number of males to the number of females in the club?

(1) In club Y the number of female members is one less than the number of male members.
(2) In club Y the number of male Republican members is equal to the number of female Democratic members.

OA is B.Please check out my reasoning and correct me if I´m wrong:

MD:male democrats
FD:female democrats
MR:male republicans
FR:female republicans

MD=M/2
MR=M/2
FD=3/5F
FR=2/5F

MR=FD
M/2=3F/5.From here I got: M=6F/5

Then the ratio is: M/F OR (6F/5)/F=6/5.

thanks for clarifying the problem. with the new values its clear.

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