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Re: At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If [#permalink]
Bunuel wrote:
At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If 6 or more cakes were sold for 20% of the total number of days, is the average number of cakes sold less than 4?

(1) On 75% of the days that less than 6 cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was less than 4.

(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more.


Hello Bunuel,

How to interpret second statement "(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more."
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Re: At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If [#permalink]
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Bunuel wrote:
At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If 6 or more cakes were sold for 20% of the total number of days, is the average number of cakes sold less than 4?

(1) On 75% of the days that less than 6 cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was less than 4.

(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more.


Hello Bunuel,

How to interpret second statement "(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more."


Statement 2 tells you the exact same thing that statement 1 does.

Since it's given in the question stem that on 20% of the days, 6 or more cakes were sold, statement 2 tells us that on 50% of the days, between 4 (inclusive) and 6 cakes were sold, and 50% >=6 cakes were sold. That means, 20% of the days, 4 - 6 cakes were sold and on 60% of the days, less than 4 cakes were sold.
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Re: At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If [#permalink]
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Bunuel wrote:
At a bakery, cakes are sold every day for a certain number of days. If 6 or more cakes were sold for 20% of the total number of days, is the average number of cakes sold less than 4?

(1) On 75% of the days that less than 6 cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was less than 4.

(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more.


Hello Bunuel,

How to interpret second statement "(2) On 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more."


It's given in the stem that on \(20\)% of days, 6 or more cakes were sold.
Now 2) says that on 50% of the days that 4 or more cakes were sold, the number of cakes sold each day was 6 or more.

Let total number of days be \(x\).
So acc. to stem, on \(\frac{x}{5}\) days, 6 or more cakes were sold.
Now let \(y\) be number of days on which 4 or more cakes are sold.

So acc. to 2) \(\frac{y}{2} = \frac{x}{5}\). So \(y = \frac{2*x}{5}\) or y=40% of x.

I hope this clears your doubt.

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