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I know these questions are kind of easy but I have always difficultieswhen they appear any method or explanation that you guys give will be appreciated thanks a lot

Anne owes Bob $4, Bob owes Carol $3, and Carol owes Anne $5. If Carol settles all the debts by giving money to both Anne and Bob How much will she give Anne?

A) $1
B) $2
C) $3
D) $4
E) $5
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Re: Debts [#permalink] New post 09 Oct 2009, 14:01
TheRob wrote:
I know these questions are kind of easy but I have always difficultieswhen they appear any method or explanation that you guys give will be appreciated thanks a lot

Anne owes Bob $4, Bob owes Carol $3, and Carol owes Anne $5. If Carol settles all the debts by giving money to both Anne and Bob How much will she give Anne?

A) $1
B) $2
C) $3
D) $4
E) $5


Anne owes someone 4$ and another person owes her 5$ (so her balance is +1). If all debts are settled not by Anne (as stated), Anne should gain 1$. Answer 1.
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Re: Debts [#permalink] New post 10 Oct 2009, 07:33
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TheRob wrote:
I know these questions are kind of easy but I have always difficultieswhen they appear any method or explanation that you guys give will be appreciated thanks a lot

Anne owes Bob $4, Bob owes Carol $3, and Carol owes Anne $5. If Carol settles all the debts by giving money to both Anne and Bob How much will she give Anne?

A) $1
B) $2
C) $3
D) $4
E) $5


Anne owes someone 4$ and another person owes her 5$ (so her balance is +1). If all debts are settled not by Anne (as stated), Anne should gain 1$. Answer 1.


The question asks for the amount Carol has to give to Anne. The answer should thus be $2.
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Re: Debts [#permalink] New post 10 Oct 2009, 09:07
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Bunuel wrote:
TheRob wrote:
I know these questions are kind of easy but I have always difficultieswhen they appear any method or explanation that you guys give will be appreciated thanks a lot

Anne owes Bob $4, Bob owes Carol $3, and Carol owes Anne $5. If Carol settles all the debts by giving money to both Anne and Bob How much will she give Anne?

A) $1
B) $2
C) $3
D) $4
E) $5


Anne owes someone 4$ and another person owes her 5$ (so her balance is +1). If all debts are settled not by Anne (as stated), Anne should gain 1$. Answer 1.


The question asks for the amount Carol has to give to Anne. The answer should thus be $2.


I still believe answer is A (1$), though we don't have OA yet.

Let's go step by step.

We are told that: "Carol settles all the debts by giving money to both Anne and Bob" --> which means that by this one only action (giving money to both Anne and Bob) Carol settles ALL debts. How this can happen?

The balances of each:

Anne: +1(5-4)
Bob: +1 (4-3)
Carol: -2 (3-5)

So if carol wants to settle all the debts she must give 1$ to Anne and 1$ to Bob. After this operation by Carol all the debts would be settled. So carol should give Anne 1$.

Answer: A.
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Re: Debts [#permalink] New post 10 Oct 2009, 20:11
Oh Yes! I made Carol give $2 to Anne and Anne in turn gave $1 to Bob. I think you are right.. But can we have the OA!!
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Re: Debts [#permalink] New post 11 Oct 2009, 08:11
I will go with option A
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