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i have a confusion with the language of the question,
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In 1994, if twice as many autos imported to Country X broke down as autos exported from Country X and 20 percent of the exported autos broke down,

doesn't this mean that the number of imported autos that broke down were double the number of autos that were exported?

Please explain what i read or understood incorrectly ? by reading the framing of sentence.
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i have a confusion with the language of the question,
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In 1994, if twice as many autos imported to Country X broke down as autos exported from Country X and 20 percent of the exported autos broke down,

doesn't this mean that the number of imported autos that broke down were double the number of autos that were exported?

Please explain what i read or understood incorrectly ? by reading the framing of sentence.
apurv09 , you have read it correctly. See my solution above.

I can't quite figure out what the issue is. :)

Hope that helps.
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In 1994, if twice as many autos imported to Country X broke down as autos exported from Country X and 20 percent of the exported autos broke down, what percent of the imported autos broke down?

(A) 1%
(B) 1.5%
(C) 2%
(D) 4%
(E) 5.5%

Since 50% of the 200 million imported items were autos, 100 million autos were imported.

Since 10% of the 100 million exported items were autos, 10 million autos were exported.

Since 20% of the exported autos broke down, 2 million exported autos broken down.

Since twice as many imported autos broke down as exported autos, 4 million imported autos broke down. Thus 4% of the imported autos broke down.

Answer: D
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Since X exported 100 million items, out of which 10% or 10 mil were cars, 20% of broken cars would be 2 mil.
Since twice as many imported cars broke down as exported, we know that 4 mil broke down
X has imported 200mil items, out of which 50% is cars or 100 mil cars from which 4mil cars have broken down or 4 %( D)
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