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# On a certain road 10% of the motorists exceed the posted spe

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17 Jul 2013, 08:24
I agree that the level of a question depends on real gmat test takers' results. But imho this tag on a forum shouldnt be assessed by the level of only current gmatclub users, since perhaps current guys can be math genious or vise versa dummies like me:)

So , i wanted Bunuel to assess the level of a question, using his experience. He solved lots of gmat questions and knows well all ins&outs of this test. I feel better when i see his assessment rather than the one generated by some unknown to me users.

Anyways, i dont insist on anything. It is ur forum and ur rules. I just expressed my thoughts as a user and hope didnt offend anyone.

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17 Jul 2013, 08:28
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LalaB wrote:
I just expressed my thoughts as a user and hope didnt offend anyone.

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Of course not. In contrast I think it's very healthy and useful discussion.
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I agree that the level of a question depends on real gmat test takers' results. But imho this tag on a forum shouldnt be assessed by the level of only current gmatclub users, since perhaps current guys can be math genious or vise versa dummies like me:)

So , i wanted Bunuel to assess the level of a question, using his experience. He solved lots of gmat questions and knows well all ins&outs of this test. I feel better when i see his assessment rather than the one generated by some unknown to me users.

Anyways, i dont insist on anything. It is ur forum and ur rules. I just expressed my thoughts as a user and hope didnt offend anyone.

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Dear LalaB,

As Bunuel said, the question of offend does not arise. When someone asks me the level of a question, I usually look at the question and judge according to my experience and move on. I do not go into details of why it is an inaccurate exercise. In this case I got into an explanation because you are a seasoned and valued participant of this community - with people like that, your mind instinctively tries to go out of its way to help, discuss and give what you think is the best answer (I might have offended someone else now!) I actually did not go to the question to judge what level it is before putting my response because that was irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.
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Get started with Veritas Prep GMAT On Demand for $199 Veritas Prep Reviews Manager Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Posts: 59 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]: 31 [0], given: 35 On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the pos [#permalink] ### Show Tags 10 Sep 2013, 01:55 On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 20 percent of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit? (A) 10 1/2% (B) 12 1/2% (C) 15% (D) 22% (E) 30% It is an old OG problem that has not been explained clearly before. Please provide a detailed solution to the problem. On another note, I notice that the overlapping sets are very often tested in this fairly confusing way, where I personally feel I am unable to use the grid advocated by MGMAT or Venn Diagram for that matter. I'm wasting plenty of time on setting it up. Any other methods you guys suggest to solve these? Or should I just "think better":) Since this is the last problem of the set I presume it to be a 700+ level question, but it seems to me that in general GMAT is much harder these days that it was 10 years ago, so I'd guess it is hardly a 650 level today. Share your thoughts. _________________ There are times when I do not mind kudos...I do enjoy giving some for help Manager Joined: 06 Feb 2013 Posts: 59 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]: 31 [0], given: 35 Re: On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the pos [#permalink] ### Show Tags 10 Sep 2013, 02:03 I think I got it with the grid... _________________ There are times when I do not mind kudos...I do enjoy giving some for help Math Expert Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 33000 Followers: 5751 Kudos [?]: 70480 [0], given: 9847 Re: On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the pos [#permalink] ### Show Tags 10 Sep 2013, 03:00 Expert's post obs23 wrote: On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 20 percent of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit? (A) 10 1/2% (B) 12 1/2% (C) 15% (D) 22% (E) 30% It is an old OG problem that has not been explained clearly before. Please provide a detailed solution to the problem. On another note, I notice that the overlapping sets are very often tested in this fairly confusing way, where I personally feel I am unable to use the grid advocated by MGMAT or Venn Diagram for that matter. I'm wasting plenty of time on setting it up. Any other methods you guys suggest to solve these? Or should I just "think better":) Since this is the last problem of the set I presume it to be a 700+ level question, but it seems to me that in general GMAT is much harder these days that it was 10 years ago, so I'd guess it is hardly a 650 level today. Share your thoughts. Merging similar topics. Please refer to the different approaches offered on page 1 and ask if anything remain unclear. _________________ GMAT Club Legend Joined: 09 Sep 2013 Posts: 9623 Followers: 465 Kudos [?]: 120 [0], given: 0 Re: On a certain road 10% of the motorists exceed the posted spe [#permalink] ### Show Tags 23 Sep 2014, 06:38 Hello from the GMAT Club BumpBot! Thanks to another GMAT Club member, I have just discovered this valuable topic, yet it had no discussion for over a year. I am now bumping it up - doing my job. I think you may find it valuable (esp those replies with Kudos). Want to see all other topics I dig out? Follow me (click follow button on profile). 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Nevertheless, at least from my understanding the question looks for something completely different, namely - ''What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit?". So the question is rather looking for a comparison between motorists that exceed the limit and such that don't. Here we rather compare those that got tickets to the ones that didn't. Am I the only one with this doubt or is it a way that exam makers want to confuse you? Thanks! _________________ Thank you very much for reading this post till the end! Kudos? Last edited by bgpower on 18 Aug 2015, 00:37, edited 1 time in total. Veritas Prep GMAT Instructor Joined: 16 Oct 2010 Posts: 6565 Location: Pune, India Followers: 1789 Kudos [?]: 10758 [0], given: 210 Re: On a certain road 10% of the motorists exceed the posted spe [#permalink] ### Show Tags 18 Aug 2015, 00:31 Expert's post bgpower wrote: Quote: On a certain road 10 percent of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 20 percent of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit? (A) 10 1/2% (B) 12 1/2% (C) 15% (D) 22% (E) 30% I don't know whether it's just me, but I find the wording of this question to be horrible. I actually got it right and came to 12,5%. Nevertheless, at least from my understanding the question looks for something completely different, namely - ''What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit?". So the question is rather looking for a comparison between motorists that exceed the limit and such that don't. Here we rather compare those that got tickets to the ones that didn't. Am I the only one with this doubt or is it a way that exam makers what to confuse you? Thanks! The question is fine. Some fraction of the motorists exceed the speed limit. Say x%. We need to find x%. Some of these x% motorists get speeding tickets (say y%) and others do not. Anyone who gets a speeding ticket (belongs to y%) must belong to these x%. You are given that y% of x% of Total motorists = 10% of Total motorists (people who exceed the limit and get tickets) Also, 20% of x% do not get tickets. This means 80% of x% do get tickets. This 80% of x% of Total= 10% of Total (we are already given) So x% of Total = 12.5% of Total _________________ Karishma Veritas Prep | GMAT Instructor My Blog Get started with Veritas Prep GMAT On Demand for$199

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31 Oct 2015, 12:24
let's say we have 100 motorists
we know that 0.2 of the total people who were speeding did not receive tickets.
that means that 10+0.2y = y, where y stands for all people who were speeding.
10 = 0.8y -> rewrite 10*10/8 = 100/8 = 25/2 = 12.5. B.
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