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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If b tickets were sold at the benefactor rate, g were sold at the group rate, and the remaining r at the normal rate, how many tickets were sold at the group rate?

(1) r = 180
(2) The rate of b to g to r is 4 to 7 to 9

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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If Updated on: 14 Mar 2018, 09:13
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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If b tickets were sold at the benefactor rate, g were sold at the group rate, and the remaining r at the normal rate, how many tickets were sold at the group rate?

(1) r = 180
(2) The rate of b to g to r is 4 to 7 to 9
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Total No of ticket sold: b+g+r =400
let their rate be Rb, Rg ,Rr.
Their is no information about total collection from ticket sale.
Question we have to answer is "how many tickets were sold at the group rate"

Statement 1 : r= 180
b+g+ 180 = 400
b+g = 220
We cannot find vaue of g from this statement.
Statement 2 Rb:Rg:Rr :: 4:7:9
b*Rb + g*Rg + r*Rr = Ticket sales revenue
b*4x + g*7x +r*9x = Ticket sales revenue
as total ticket sales revenue is not given, so this information is not suffcient to find out value of g.

So answer is E
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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If b tickets were sold at the benefactor rate, g were sold at the group rate, and the remaining r at the normal rate, how many tickets were sold at the group rate?

(1) r = 180
(2) The rate of b to g to r is 4 to 7 to 9

Total No of ticket sold: b+g+r =400
let their rate be Rb, Rg ,Rr.
Their is no information about total collection from ticket sale.
Question we have to answer is "how many tickets were sold at the group rate"

Statement 1 : r= 180
b+g+ 180 = 400
b+g = 220
We cannot find vaue of g from this statement.
Statement 2 Rb:Rg:Rr :: 4:7:9
as total ticket collection is not given, so this information is not suffcient to find out value of g.

So answer is E
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Hello

Isn't the total number given as 400?

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Total number of tickets guven not the revenue. The ratio of rates given. Even after combining, we can find individual rates . But not the number of ticket.

Hence insufficient.

Answer E

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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If b tickets were sold at the benefactor rate, g were sold at the group rate, and the remaining r at the normal rate, how many tickets were sold at the group rate?

(1) r = 180
(2) The rate of b to g to r is 4 to 7 to 9

Total No of ticket sold: b+g+r =400
let their rate be Rb, Rg ,Rr.
Their is no information about total collection from ticket sale.
Question we have to answer is "how many tickets were sold at the group rate"

Statement 1 : r= 180
b+g+ 180 = 400
b+g = 220
We cannot find vaue of g from this statement.
Statement 2 Rb:Rg:Rr :: 4:7:9
as total ticket collection is not given, so this information is not suffcient to find out value of g.

So answer is E

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Isn't the total number given as 400?

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Total number of tickets guven not the revenue. The ratio of rates given. Even after combining, we can find individual rates . But not the number of ticket.

Hence insufficient.

Answer E

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Isn't the total number given as 400?

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Thanks for clarifying. I mis-read the word 'rate' in second statement as 'ratio'.
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A box office sold a total of 400 tickets to a certain performance. If b tickets were sold at the benefactor rate, g were sold at the group rate, and the remaining r at the normal rate, how many tickets were sold at the group rate?

(1) r = 180
(2) The rate of b to g to r is 4 to 7 to 9

Total No of ticket sold: b+g+r =400
let their rate be Rb, Rg ,Rr.
Their is no information about total collection from ticket sale.
Question we have to answer is "how many tickets were sold at the group rate"

Statement 1 : r= 180
b+g+ 180 = 400
b+g = 220
We cannot find vaue of g from this statement.
Statement 2 Rb:Rg:Rr :: 4:7:9
b*Rb + g*Rg + r*Rr = Ticket sales revenue
b*4x + g*7x +r*9x = Ticket sales revenue
as total ticket sales revenue is not given, so this information is not suffcient to find out value of g.

So answer is E
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how can the OA be B?

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