Oh, by the way - before I proceed with any more explanations - Merry Christmas everyone

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Also, I immediately realized I got this one wrong last evening, so might as well get into why this one's tricky and how can folks like me not fall for these traps in the exam...
Now, to the question:
A museum has a different number of people visit them every day for 12 consecutive days. The smallest of these counts is 27. We need to find the largest.
As of now, with the stem alone, we can tell that the smallest may by 27, but the largest can be any number.
Statement 1: We insert a condition - the range of the visitor count for the 12 days was at most 12.This was honestly the trickier part, but I was able to figure that out. But sometimes when you're looking for the tricky trick, you miss out on the obvious one. I'll get to that in Statement II.
Anyway, we see that the range of visitors is 12. Nope. Incorrect. The range is,
at most, 12

How does this make a difference when we're looking at 12 consecutive days but? It does.
Let's take the least number of visitors it could possible be for each day:
We start at 27. So, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. We start at 27, and end at 38. That's a range of 38 - 27 =
11. Not
12. 39 is very much possible - as we're given a nice little "at most". So, all we can tell here is, that the largest count may either be 39 or 38.
Hence, Statement I alone is not enough.Statement 2: Okay, so this means, 33 was the Median - or the number that lies in the middle of the visitor counts arranged in an ascending order.
If we take the lowest possible counts - 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 - we'll have the 33 appear as the 7th term. In an even set of terms, the median for 12 terms will be the average of the two middle terms - the 6th and the 7th in this case. Since it can't be 32.5, we can make a bit of an adjustment. Maybe a 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34 for good measure. That's a 32 + 34 / 2 = 33.
But what about the subsequent 5 counts, beyond the 34? They could be anything (since we don't have the "12 is the range condition" in Statement 2. That could be 48, 49, 82, 96,543 for all you know. The median doesn't impact that.
Hence, Statement II alone isn't sufficient. Now, I forgot to remove the "range is 12 condition" from my head. And marked this wrong.Both statements together: We know that the maximum term possible is 39. We also know that, since the Median is 33, there's no way we don't have 34 as the 7th term, which'll make 39 the 12th term. Simple. We have the answer. Both taken together. C. Bunuel