siddharth287 wrote:
HI Brent. I always get such type of questions wrong, where i miss testing one odd possibility. Such question types are also common in inequality questions.
How to tackle such problems? where testing cases is the only option and there exists no algebraic approach.
Furthermore in problems where it comes to choosing between C and E. Is there any algorithm kind of a thing to choose between C and E? Kindly help me.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to answer your question in any kind of satisfying way.
If neither statement alone is sufficient, and there's no algebraic approach available, then your goal is to find two different scenarios that satisfy both statements yet yield different answers to the target question.
If you're able to find cases that yield different answers to the target question, then you're done (the correct answer is E).
If you're unable to find such cases, the correct answer may be C or E (since it's possible you might have just missed identifying cases that yield different answers to the target question).
Unfortunately, there's no algorithmic approach to doing this.
Each question will present its own unique set of challenges.