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I understand why E is the answer here, but can anyone tell me if the question would have been ___ then C would have been the answer?
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Hi SimantaSourav,
Great question, and since you already see why E holds, let's use that to reverse-engineer a C.
Remember, two separate things are blocking sufficiency here:
1. The stem says Chris's criteria "included" size and price - so there might be other criteria we don't know about. Even a monitor that clears both stated bars might still lose on some hidden factor.
2. Even ignoring that, Statement (2) only tells us B's screen is less than A's, not whether B clears 32". So if both A and B qualify, there's no tiebreaker and we can't say which he'd pick.
To get to C, you have to close both gaps. So imagine the question rewritten like this:
- Change the stem to: "Chris's only two purchase criteria were screen size (at least 32 inches) and price (at most $400)."
- Change Statement (2) to: "Monitor B's screen size was less than 32 inches." (keep the $390 price)
Now watch it work:
Statement (1) alone: A clears 32" and costs less than B, but B's price is unknown, so A's price could still blow past $400. Not sufficient.
Statement (2) alone: B fails the size bar, but we know nothing about A's size or price - could be A, could be neither. Not sufficient.
Together: A clears 32", and A costs less than B's $390, so A is under $400 too - A qualifies. B fails on size, so B is out. Chris buys A. Definite answer - C.
The key is that C requires the givens to force a single determinate outcome. Lock the criteria to "only these two" and force exactly one monitor to qualify, and the ambiguity that produces E disappears.
Answer: E
Great question, and since you already see why E holds, let's use that to reverse-engineer a C.
Remember, two separate things are blocking sufficiency here:
1. The stem says Chris's criteria "included" size and price - so there might be other criteria we don't know about. Even a monitor that clears both stated bars might still lose on some hidden factor.
2. Even ignoring that, Statement (2) only tells us B's screen is less than A's, not whether B clears 32". So if both A and B qualify, there's no tiebreaker and we can't say which he'd pick.
To get to C, you have to close both gaps. So imagine the question rewritten like this:
- Change the stem to: "Chris's only two purchase criteria were screen size (at least 32 inches) and price (at most $400)."
- Change Statement (2) to: "Monitor B's screen size was less than 32 inches." (keep the $390 price)
Now watch it work:
Statement (1) alone: A clears 32" and costs less than B, but B's price is unknown, so A's price could still blow past $400. Not sufficient.
Statement (2) alone: B fails the size bar, but we know nothing about A's size or price - could be A, could be neither. Not sufficient.
Together: A clears 32", and A costs less than B's $390, so A is under $400 too - A qualifies. B fails on size, so B is out. Chris buys A. Definite answer - C.
The key is that C requires the givens to force a single determinate outcome. Lock the criteria to "only these two" and force exactly one monitor to qualify, and the ambiguity that produces E disappears.
Answer: E
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