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On a certain tour, half of the men are married, and the wives of 9/10 of them are also on the tour.
If there are 3 more women on the tour than men, what is the least possible number of people who could be on the tour?

(A) 19
(B) 22
(C) 23
(D) 43
(E) 52
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18 Jun 2008, 12:35
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On a certain tour, half of the men are married, and the wives of 9/10 of them are also on the tour.
If there are 3 more women on the tour than men, what is the least possible number of people who could be on the tour?

It’s D.

The key to solution is the fact that the number of man (m) on the tour must be an integer

So, m/2 should be an integer and also m/2*(1/10) should be an integer. The latter translates to condition that m/20 is an integer. The least possible number that satisfies this condition is 20. So, the number of women is 20+3 = 23 and the total number of people on the tour is 20+23=43.
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18 Jun 2008, 13:48
gmatcrook wrote:
On a certain tour, half of the men are married, and the wives of 9/10 of them are also on the tour.
If there are 3 more women on the tour than men, what is the least possible number of people who could be on the tour?

(A) 19
(B) 22
(C) 23
(D) 43
(E) 52

I get D.

M/2. Then we have 9M/20 for number of wives.

M has to be 20.

Thus W = M+3 --> 23.

23+20 =43.
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18 Jun 2008, 14:01
I also get D for similar reason to the BJ Penn fan

if 50% of the men are married and 9/10 [of those, or 45% of the total] are with their wives, that leaves 5% of the men that are alone. If that 5% has to represent an integer, then 5% = 1 would be the lowest. So then the 100% of the men would be 100%/5% = 20. And if there are 3 more women there than men, then there has to be 23 women, so 20+23 = 43.

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On a certain tour, half of the men are married, and the wives of 9/10 of them are also on the tour.
If there are 3 more women on the tour than men, what is the least possible number of people who could be on the tour?

(A) 19
(B) 22
(C) 23
(D) 43
(E) 52

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19 Jun 2008, 04:56
timothyhuang wrote:
I'm a little confused. Can someone help me understand the reasoning? The consensus is that the answer is D and there are 20 men. But if there are 20 men, then half are married --> 10 are married. of those, 9/10 of them are with their wives, so there are 9 wives. Wouldn't that be 20 men and 9 women = 29 people total??

Actually, I don't understand how there could be more women than men at all if only a fraction of the men have their wives along with them.

Some women choose not to marry!
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19 Jun 2008, 05:04
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timothyhuang wrote:
I'm a little confused. Can someone help me understand the reasoning? The consensus is that the answer is D and there are 20 men. But if there are 20 men, then half are married --> 10 are married. of those, 9/10 of them are with their wives, so there are 9 wives. Wouldn't that be 20 men and 9 women = 29 people total??

Actually, I don't understand how there could be more women than men at all if only a fraction of the men have their wives along with them.

Some women choose not to marry!

Single women can go on trips too!
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