angelfire213 wrote:
can someone tell me why this reasoning is wrong.
For statement B - say you take it to mean for every 8 books, 5 are bought for 1 female. So for the 15,000 books 9375 are bought by females. Average out 5 books to one female and you have 1875 females.
Where is my logic going astray?
You are assuming that number of males = number of females which is not given.
You say that one male and one female buy a total of 8 books so total number of pairs = 15000/8 = 1875. So we get that there are 1875 males and 1875 females.
But isn't this possible - there are 3 females who buy 15 books and rest 14985 books are bought by 4995 males? This will give us a total of 15000 books bought such that on average males buy 3 books per person and females buy 5 books per person.
Similarly, there are many other cases possible.
We know w1/w2 = (A2 - Aavg)/(Aavg - A1)
We need to find the fraction w1/w2 = Number of males/Number of females and the total number of people to get the number of females.
i) Total attendees are 4000
This gives us Aavg = 15000/4000
We also get that w1 + w2 = 4000.
But we don't have A1, A2.
ii) Males purchased an average of 3 books each & females purchased an average of 5 books each.
This gives us A1 = 3 and A2 = 5
We don't have Aavg.
Using both, we have Aavg, A1 and A2. So we can find w1/w2 and we also know that total number of people is 4000. This is sufficient to answer the question.
Answer (C)
_________________
Karishma Bansal - ANA PREP
*SUPER SUNDAYS!* - FREE Access to ALL Resources EVERY Sunday
REGISTER at ANA PREP
(Includes access to Study Modules, Concept Videos, Practice Questions and LIVE Classes)
YouTube Channel
youtube.com/karishma.anaprep