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In a certain international contest the winners received only gold and silver medals. In that contest, France received how many more medals than Spain did?

(1) If France were to give Spain half of its gold medals, and Spain were to give France half of its silver medals, then France would have a total of 26 more medals than Spain.

(2) If Spain were to give France half of its gold medals, and France were to give Spain half of its silver medals, then Spain would have a total of 22 more medals than France.

 
Let us consider no. of medals in gold and silver category as per matrix

---------- Gold --- Silver
France --- x ---- y
Spain --- u ---- v

We have to find value of = (x + y) - ( u + v )


Statement 1 : If France were to give Spain half of its gold medals, and Spain were to give France half of its silver medals, then France would have a total of 26 more medals than Spain.
\(\frac{x}{2}\) + y + \(\frac{v}{2}\) - ( u +\( \frac{x}{2}\) + \(\frac{v}{2}\) ) = 26
y - u =26

Not sufficient

Statement 2 : If Spain were to give France half of its gold medals, and France were to give Spain half of its silver medals, then Spain would have a total of 22 more medals than France.
\(\frac{u}{2 }\)+ v +\( \frac{y}{2}\) - ( x +\(\frac{ u}{2}\) + \(\frac{y}{2 }\) ) =22
v-x =22
Not sufficient

Combined:

y - u - (v - x) = 26 -22 = 4
y + x - ( u + v )=4
Sufficient

C is the answer IMO­
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you would get a relationship between france silver and spain gold similarly you would get the same result which should be sufficient enough in determining the difference in number of gold and silver
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