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How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 24 Apr 2012, 09:14
How many people are directors of both Company K and Company R ?

(1) There were 17 directors present at a joint meeting of the directors of Company K and Company R, and no directors were absent.

(2) Company K has 12 directors and Company R has 8 directors.

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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 24 Apr 2012, 11:23
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How many people are directors of both Company K and Company R ?

(1) There were 17 directors present at a joint meeting of the directors of Company K and Company R, and no directors were absent. Together Company K and Company R have 17 directors (total #). Not sufficient to say how many people out of those 17 are directors of both.

(2) Company K has 12 directors and Company R has 8 directors. We know how many directors has each company, but it's still not sufficient to to say how many are directors of both.

(1)+(2) Company K has 12 directors and Company R has 8 directors, which adds up to 12+8=20, since we know that there are total of 17 directors then 20-17=3 people must be directors of both Company K and Company R. Sufficient.

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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 13 Nov 2012, 05:11
Hi Bunuel,

I am unable to solve this using the double set matrix method.

Could you please show how to solve this Q using the above mentioned method?

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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 13 Nov 2012, 06:47
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Sachin9 wrote:
Hi Bunuel,

I am unable to solve this using the double set matrix method.

Could you please show how to solve this Q using the above mentioned method?

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Check the matrix below:
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Numbers in black are given and numbers in red are calculated.

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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 13 Nov 2012, 06:54
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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 13 Nov 2012, 07:02
Sachin9 wrote:
how did you infer '0' ?


(1) says that "there were 17 directors present at a joint meeting of the directors of Company K and Company R", so each out of 17 people was either director of K or R (or both) and no one who wasn't director of either of the companies was present at the meeting.
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Re: How many people are directors of both Company K and Company [#permalink] New post 13 Nov 2012, 07:08
Sachin9 wrote:
how did you infer '0' ?

There is a joint meeting between directors and no director is absent.
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