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21 May 2020, 03:47
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A group of friends went to an ice-cream parlour and ordered only two types of ice-cream - chocolate and strawberry. Of the people in the group, at least one person ate only one type ice-cream, some people ate both types of ice-cream and at least one person did not eat any type of ice-cream. Did more people eat chocolate ice-cream than strawberry ice-cream?
(1) The ratio of the number of people who ate chocolate ice-cream to people who ate strawberry ice-cream was greater than the ratio of the total number of people who went to ice-cream parlour to the number of people who did not eat any type of ice-cream.
(2) The number of people who ate only one type of ice-cream is greater than the number of people who ate strawberry ice-cream.
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(1) The ratio of the number of people who ate chocolate ice-cream to people who ate strawberry ice-cream was greater than the ratio of the total number of people who went to ice-cream parlour to the number of people who did not eat any type of ice-cream.
(2) The number of people who ate only one type of ice-cream is greater than the number of people who ate strawberry ice-cream.
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21 May 2020, 04:34
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In Statement 1, the ratio of the total number of people to the number who ate neither must be greater than 1, since the people who ate neither are part (but not all) of the total. So Statement 1 tells us "the ratio of the number who ate chocolate to the number who ate strawberry is greater than 1" which means more people ate chocolate, and Statement 1 is sufficient.
If you let b = people who ate both, c = people who only ate chocolate, and s = people who only ate strawberry, Statement 2 tells us that c + s > b + s, or c > b, so Statement 2 tells us more people only ate chocolate than ate both types of ice cream. We know nothing about the size of s from that, so Statement 2 is not sufficient, and the answer is A.
The wording of the question is deeply problematic, though: when Statement 1 begins "The ratio of the number of people who ate chocolate ice-cream and people who ate strawberry ice-cream" it sounds like it's talking about the people who ate both types of ice cream. I'm expecting the word "to" to follow, and then to learn what the ratio is comparing that group to. But that's not what Statement 1 is trying to say. When stating a ratio, the word "to" always must separate the two parts of the ratio, and that's not the case in either Statement here.
17 Jun 2020, 13:40
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Statement 1 : Let those who like both chocolate and strawberry be X. Let those who like chocolate be C ,let those who like strawberry be S and let those who like neither be N
This means chocolate alone =c-x.Strawberry alone =s-x
Statement 1 : C/S > (C+S-X+N)/N. This can be reduced to C/S > (C+S-X)/N+N/N.
This can also be reduced to C/S > (C+S-X)/N+1.This means that C/S is greater than 1 + some positive number .This clearly shows that C>S. Sufficient
Statement 2 This statement can be represented as C+S-2x>S-x.This simplifies to C> x which is clearly insufficient to tell whether C>S. Insufficient
Answer is A
