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VeritasKarishma I have read the link about what constitutes weights in weighted average problems [https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2014/12/what-are-the-weights-in-weighted-averages/]
In this problem it seems to represent the ratio of the Number of TOTAL bulbs (switched on + switched off) for incandescent or fluorescent bulbs.
Question : how do you quickly figure out, that 80 % meant you had to take the following weights : TOTAL number of bulbs as your weights and not TOTAL number of lighted bulbs as your weights.
I thought the 80 % represented taking total number of lighted bulbs only as your weights because 40 % is the % of Incandescent lighted bulbs and 90 % is the % of Fluorescent lighted bulbs.
Check the parallel example I gave above. When you have two solutions, one 40% alcohol and other 90% alcohol, are your weights the volumes of the two solutions or the volumes of the alcohol in the two solutions?
Alcohol is one of the ingredients and the weights are the solutions themselves, not an ingredient.
Similarly, here the weights are Incandescent lighted bulbs and Fluorescent lighted bulbs, not bulbs that are on. Incandescent Bulbs that are on and Incandescent bulbs that are off are two ingredients of all Incandescent bulbs.