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# gmatprep_mean_median_home price

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24 Mar 2009, 12:17
I think its A

II. Since the median $130k is less than average$150k, there has to be at least one house above median. However, they can all be above $150k and still average$150k. Consider a situation where first seven homes were very cheap and last seven were very expensive with $130 being the median 8th house. III. The price of the first eight houses could be$130 (being the lowest price) and average could still be $150k. I. I am not sure about this one, but since II and III must not be true and there is no choice for none, I'll pick A. Manager Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 82 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]: 46 [0], given: 2 GMATprep practice question:mean_median:home price [#permalink] ### Show Tags 24 Mar 2009, 14:36 I. -> It's not clear why it is must be true that at least one of the homes was sold for more than$165,000. It's not necessary. It can be just $160k or$155K.

Can anybody please explain this/solve this problem differently?
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24 Mar 2009, 15:04
Okay, lets try to prove that we can have no house sold for more than $165k. To do this the we should try to keep the prices as evenly distributed as possible and as close to$165k as possible. We know that total price of all homes is 150*15=$2,250k. (average*number of homes) Lets consider first eight houses. To be as close to$165k we will use $130k which is the maximum possible value for the first 8 houses since median is$130k. The price of first seven houses cannot be more than the median. So the price of first 8 houses is 8*130=$1,040k. Now consider houses 9 to 15. To ensure that no house is above$165k, we use the maximum possible value of $165k. So the value of seven houses 9 to 15 is 165*7=$1,155.

The maxium possible value of all homes is 1,040 + 1,155 = $2,195k which is less than$2,250.

Therefore, there has to be at least one home sold for more than $165k. There is no possible way to do it when average for 15 homes is$150k and median is \$130k.
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