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# Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two

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Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two possible variants: $5 pumps and$25 pumps. If the ratio between the number of $5 pumps purchased and the number of$25 pumps purchased is 13:7, How many $5 grease pumps did Danny buy? (1) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was less than$400 .
(2) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was greater than $200. Source: HULT [Reveal] Spoiler: OA Kudos [?]: 40 [2], given: 57 Moderator Joined: 02 Jul 2012 Posts: 1218 Kudos [?]: 1659 [0], given: 116 Location: India Concentration: Strategy GMAT 1: 740 Q49 V42 GPA: 3.8 WE: Engineering (Energy and Utilities) Re: Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two [#permalink] ### Show Tags 20 Dec 2012, 00:44 Amateur wrote: Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two possible variants:$5 pumps and $25 pumps. If the ratio between the number of$5 pumps purchased and the number of $25 pumps purchased is 13:7, How many$5 grease pumps did Danny buy?
(1) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was less than $400 . (2) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was greater than$200.

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Let no. of $25 pumps be T. Then no. of$5 pumps should be $$\frac{13T}{7}$$

$$25*T + 5*\frac{13T}{7} = P$$ where T is an positive integer divisible by 7.

=> $$25*T + \frac{65T}{7} = P$$

T = 7, P = 240
T=14, P = 480 and so on.

1) T = 7. Sufficient.

2)T can be 7,14,21 and so on.. Insufficient.

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20 Dec 2012, 00:46
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Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two possible variants: $5 pumps and$25 pumps. If the ratio between the number of $5 pumps purchased and the number of$25 pumps purchased is 13:7, How many $5 grease pumps did Danny buy? (1) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was less than$400 .

(2) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was greater than $200. Source: HULT Hi, Let ' a ' be the no of 5$ pumps and 'b' be the no of 25$pump. We need to find a Given a: b :: 13: 7 From St 1, 5a +25b < 400 Since a and b are in the ratio of 13:7, there is only one possible value of a and b i.e 13 and 7 only So St1 is sufficient From St 2, 5a +25 b>200. There can be many values of a and b in the ratio of 13:7 ie. 13 and 7 or 26 and 14 etc Hence ans should be B _________________ “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Last edited by WoundedTiger on 16 Jan 2014, 03:21, edited 1 time in total. Kudos [?]: 847 [0], given: 724 Math Expert Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 41886 Kudos [?]: 128774 [2], given: 12182 Re: Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two [#permalink] ### Show Tags 20 Dec 2012, 03:00 2 This post received KUDOS Expert's post 2 This post was BOOKMARKED Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two possible variants:$5 pumps and $25 pumps. If the ratio between the number of$5 pumps purchased and the number of $25 pumps purchased is 13:7, How many$5 grease pumps did Danny buy?

Given that $$\frac{({}5 \ pumps)}{({}25 \ pumps)}=\frac{13x}{7x}$$, for some positive integer $$x$$.

(1) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was less than $400 --> $$5*13x+25*7x<400$$ --> $$x<\frac{5}{3}$$. Since $$x$$ is an integer then $$x=1$$ --> $$({}5 \ pumps)=13x=13$$. Sufficient. (2) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was greater than$200 --> $$5*13x+25*7x>200$$ --> $$x>\frac{5}{6}$$ --> $$x$$ can be any integer more than or equal to 1. Not sufficient.

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Amateur wrote:
Danny purchased a number of grease pumps of only two possible variants: $5 pumps and$25 pumps. If the ratio between the number of $5 pumps purchased and the number of$25 pumps purchased is 13:7, How many $5 grease pumps did Danny buy? (1) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was less than$400 .
(2) The total purchase price of the grease pumps Danny bought was greater than $200. Source: HULT nice question! suppose we have x pumps that cost 5$ and y pumps that cost 25$. Danny then spent 5x+25y dollars on the pumps. we also know that the ratio of x to y is 13:7. minimum we can have is 13 x pumps and 7 y pumps. 13*5$ = 65$7*25 = 175$
so minimum spent 240$. 1. total purchase price is less than 400$. only 1 option works... B, C, and E are out.
2. we can have various options...we can have x=13, y=7, or x=26, y=14, etc. not sufficient. D is out.

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13 Jul 2017, 08:01
Took me a little bit long to solve this one. Actually there is an easier way to approach this question.

We already know the number ratio is 13:7. Therefore, $5 pump's minimum number should be 13, and$25 pump's minimum number should be 7. So the minimum total price is 5*13+25*7=240. And the next possible number of the pumps would be 26 and 14. So the next possible total price is 5*26 + 25*14 = 480. Therefore, as long as the total price less than $400, there is only one possibility: 13$5 pumps, and 7 \$25 pumps.

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