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One night a certain hotel rented 3/4 of its rooms. including 2/3 of their air conditioned rooms. if 3/5 of its rooms were air conditioned, what percent of the rooms that were not rented were air conditioned?

20
33 1/3
35
40
80

please explain the logic

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Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink]

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vanidhar wrote:

Consider total # of rooms to be 100;
As 3/5 of the rooms are air conditioned then # of rooms that are air conditioned is 3/5*100=60;

3/4 rooms were rented --> 1/4*100=25 were NOT rented;
2/3 of air conditioned rooms were rented --> 1/3*60=20 air conditioned room were NOT rented;

20/25=4/5=80%.

Answer: E.
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Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink]

28 Sep 2010, 00:13

This can be easily solved using the matrix method
as the % is asked i can choose a good # for total rooms..let me choose 60 as all the 3 fractions given have 3,4&5 in the denominator and 60 is divisible by all thease 3 #s.

Given:
Total Rented=(60)3/4 = 45
Total AC rooms = (60)3/5 = 36
Total AC rooms rented = (36)2/3 = 24

Plug in:

Rented Not-rented |
|
AC 24 12 | 36
|
|
Non AC |
...............................................................
45 15 | 60

qtn is what % is 12 in 15 = 1200/15 = 80%

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Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink]

28 Sep 2010, 20:48

conditined un condition total

rented 24 21 45

not rent 12 3 15

total 36 24 60

total rooms 60
total rented 60*3/4 =45
total conditioned 60*3/5 =36
total conditioned 36*2/3 24
1200/15=80% (rooms that were not rented were air conditioned

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Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink]

28 Sep 2010, 20:56

The problem will be very easy to solve if you take a 2x2 matrix and work with the given data.

Given fractions - 2/3, 3/4, 3/5 -- L.C.M - 60 [consider this to be the total number of rooms.]

Rooms
	Rented	Available	Total
AirCon	24 (Given 2/3 of total aircon)	12	36 (Given - 3/5 of total)
NonAircon	21	3	24
Total	45 (Given - 3/4 of total)	15	60 (Total considered)

Hence % of non-rented (available) that were aircon -- 12/15 -- 4/5 -- 80% (E).
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One night a certain motel rented 3/4 of its rooms, including 2/3 of its air-conditioned rooms. If
3/5 of its rooms were air-conditioned, what percent of the
rooms that were not rented were air-conditioned?
(A) 20%
(B) 331/3%
(C) 35%
(D) 40%
(E) 80%

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One night a certain motel rented 3/4 of its rooms, including 2/3 of its air-conditioned rooms. If 3/5 of its rooms were air - conditioned, what percent of the rooms that were not rented were air - conditioned?
A/ 20
B/ 33 1/3
C/ 35
D/ 40
E/ 80

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05 Mar 2011, 12:54

Rooms Rented: 3/4
Rooms Not Rented: 1/4

Total AC: 3/5
AC Rented: (2/3)*(3/5) = 2/5
AC Not rented: 3/5 - 2/5 = 1/5.

% of AC that is yet to be rented per total of not rented room;

((1/5)/(1/4))*100 = (4/5)*100 = 80% of remaining(non-rented) rooms are AC.

Ans: "E"
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Re: rooms in hotel [#permalink]

05 Mar 2011, 12:59

Let's consider T as the total number of rooms.
If 2/3 of the air conditioned rooms were rented, than 1/3 of them were not rented. We know that the total number of air-conditioned rooms is 3/5, thus we can say that 1/5 of the total rooms in the hotel were air-conditioned and not rented (1/3 x 3/5 = 1/5). (a)

We know that 3/4 of the total rooms were rented, thus 1/4 were not rented. (b)

Using (a) and (b), we can calculate the ratio of air-conditioned rooms to the non-rented rooms: (1/5 x T) / (1/4 x T) = 4/5, and thus non air-conditioned rooms make 80% of the total non-rented rooms.

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Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink]

03 Nov 2011, 03:17

vanidhar wrote:

Can someone please explain where am i going wrong here?

Let total rooms be 60

Rented rooms = 3/4 * 60 = 45

Rented AC rooms = 2/3 * 45 = 30

Total AC rooms = 3/5* 60 = 36

% Rooms that are AC and not rented = [(36 - 30) /36] * 100 = 16 * (2/3)

I am not sure where is my mistake... Can someone please correct me ???

Re: OG 10 Q 248 - % rented [#permalink] 03 Nov 2011, 03:17

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