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lh47620's solution above is perfect. The question is of an easily recognizable type: it's an inequality problem that resembles a standard linear 2-equation/2-unknowns problem, except we have inequalities instead of equations. In these situations, unless you immediately something better to do, you should always just get your inequalities facing the same way and add them together (you cannot subtract inequalities, but you can add them if they face the same way) just to see what information you get that way. Very often, you immediately get the answer, so it's always worth trying.

So here, Statement 1 is quite clearly not sufficient. Using Statement 2, we can rewrite it to resemble the inequality provided in the question, and add our two inequalities together:

q + p > 3
q - p > -1
2q > 2

and if 2q > 2, we have q > 1, so the answer is B.
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If (p+q)>3 is q>1?

(1) p>0
(2) p-1<q

Given : p+q >3 .... Eq 1

St 1: p>0

If p = 1, and q = 3 then Yes, q>1
If p = 6 and q = -1 then No, here q < 1

Hence Not Sufficient.

St 2: p-1 < q
Change the inequality to same sign

-p+q > -1 --- Eq 2

Adding Eq 1 and 2, 2q > 2 => q>1

Hence St. 2 is Sufficient.

Option B
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Statement (1) is not sufficient because p = 1 yields q > 2 (i.e. q > 1), and p = 4 yields q > -1 (not certain whether q > 1). We can eliminate answer choices A and D.

Statement (2) can be algebraically manipulated to determine whether it is sufficient: p-1 < q i.e. q > p - 1
Question tells us that p + q > 3 i.e. q > 3 - p

Now add these two together: q + q > p - 1 + 3 - p i.e. 2q > 2 and q > 1

Therefore, the correct answer is B. Statement (2) alone is sufficient.
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If (p+q)>3 is q>1?

(1) p>0
(2) p-1<q

Option (1)
P>0
if P = 1 -->q>2
if P = 2 --> q>1
if P = 3 --> q>0, if P>= 3, required condition cannot be concluded (q>1)

Option (2)
p-1<q --> p-q<1 ------------------------(1)
from question, (p+q)>3 --> -p-q<-3 ----------------------(2)

from 1 & 2
-2q<-2 --> q>1

Therefore Option B
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