If each customer at the outdoor movie last night came in a c

Hi,
1) Tells us only about average no of person per car=2. It does not elicit anything about the total no of people or total no of cars in which they might have come.
2) $4500 @ $5 per person menas in total there were 900 person. Again, we cant say how many cars.

While if we combine both, we know average = sum total of all quantities / no of quantities
=> no of quantities = sum total of all quantities/average = 900/2 = 450.

Coming to your doubt obetween C and E, remember average reveals how many each can have if distributed equally. Hence the quantities which are moe than average will be balanaced bu those that have less than average. So in this case, some cars may have more than 2 person but then this extra will be offset by those that have less than 2 person per car. I hope this helps.

statement 1- avg 2 persons per car. fine. but how many cars? 4,5 or 20? not suff.
statement 2- no of people - 4500/5= 900. but came in how many cars? 900 @ 1/car or 450 @ 2/car?

both statements together- since avg 2 person per car, 900 can come in 900/2 = 450 cars only.
hence ans = C




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Well, I have a doubt regarding this problem.

If the average number of customer per car is 02, we can have range of possibilities: (lets assume that car have seating capacity of 04 people)

So, here in our situation the "Averaging/Balancing" concept will not work.

This question is from QPACK 01 and I think answer should be (E).

Official explanation incorrectly mentions (C).

Any expert replies please.

Thanks

This is really just a ratio question; Statement 1 about 'average customers per car' is really just telling us that the ratio of customers to cars is 2 to 1. So if we know, from Statement 2, there were 900 customers, then using S1 there were 450 cars, and the answer is C.



The official answer is correct. The seating capacity of the cars is not relevant to the question. The question only talks about how many customers actually occupied the cars, not how many seats were in the cars.
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Hi Vikasbansal227,

The Average Customer per car is Defined as follows

Average Customer per Car = (Total Customers) / (Total No. of Cars)

i.e. Total No. of Cars = (Total Customers) / (Average Customer per Car)

Statement 1: Average Customer per Car=2

i.e. Total Customers = (2) * (Total No. of Cars) [Please note: The seating capacity has no role in this calculation, all that we need is the number of cars. Take example that a car with seating capacity of 1 may have only 1 customer and another car of seating capacity 5 can have 3 customers but together these cars have 2 passanger per car i.e. (1+3)/2= 2 passengers per car]

But Since the Total No. of Customers is unknown therefore

NOT SUFFICIENT

Statement 2: Total receipts at the outdoor movie last night were $4,500 at $5 per customer
Total Customer = Total Receipts / Receipt per customer = 4500/ 5 = 900
But the The relation between Total Number of Customers and No. of Cars is unknown, Therefore

NOT SUFFICIENT

Combining the two statements:

From Statement 1: Total Customers = (2) * (Total No. of Cars)
From Statement 1: Total Customers = 900

i.e. (Total No. of Cars) = 900/2 = 450
SUFFICIENT

Answer: Option

Please Note: It's not a good Idea to doubt the Answers of Official Resource. Official resource is made after a lot of iterations and research and corrections.

It is straight c
Although initially it looks E, but as you go through it carefully then we know we have given no. Of passengers and also by combining we get to know about aveg of passanger per car so it is C after all

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