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In 2003 Acme Computer priced its computers five times higher than its printers. What is the ratio of its gross revenue for computers and printers respectively in the year 2003?

(1) In the first half of 2003 it sold computers and printers in the ratio of 3:2, respectively, and in the second half in the ratio of 2:1.

(2) It sold each computer for $1000.



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In 2003 Acme Computer priced its computers five times higher than its printers. What is the ratio of its gross revenue for computers and printers respectively in the year 2003?

(1) In the first half of 2003 it sold computers and printers in the ratio of 3:2, respectively, and in the second half in the ratio of 2:1.

(2) It sold each computer for $1000.
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My answer would be E.

(1) Insufficient -- you need the ratio of first half sales to second half sales.

(2) Insufficient -- Doesn't tell you anything. Because you're working with ratios, the actual price doesn't matter. The ratio of prices is enough. This additional info doesn't help with the problem.

(C) Insufficient. Because (2) doesn't tell you anything useful, you are still left with only (1) off of which to work. We already decided (1) wasn't sufficient.
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OA is E. but I do not think your reasoning is correct.
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OA is E. but I do not think your reasoning is correct.
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what about it do you think is not correct?
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In 2003 Acme Computer priced its computers five times higher than its printers. What is the ratio of its gross revenue for computers and printers respectively in the year 2003?

(1) In the first half of 2003 it sold computers and printers in the ratio of 3:2, respectively, and in the second half in the ratio of 2:1.

(2) It sold each computer for $1000.
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I got E as well:

(1) Based on this statement, we can tell that the overall ratio for the year 2003 must be between 3:2 and 2:1, but we don't know exactly where in the middle is the ratio.

(2) Fine, we now have the price for each computer and each printer, but we don't know how many of each was sold.

(1 & 2) both the statements is useless because we don't know the exact number of computers and printers sold, and we also don't know where exactly in between 3:2 and 2:1 our overall ratio is standing.

hence, E.



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