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On Christmas Eve, Santa began wrapping presents from his sack. He started wrapping the first present at 1:00 p.m. and finished wrapping the last one at 11:00 p.m. Did he wrap more than 120 presents during that period?

(1) During that period, Santa was interrupted three times by visits from reindeer needing attention.

This statement does not give us any useful piece of information. Not sufficient.

(2) Santa's average rate while he was wrapping was 15 presents per hour.

It's tempting to say that Santa was wrapping for 10 hours and thus he wrapped 10*15 = 150 presents. However, it's important to consider that the question specifically refers to the 'average rate WHILE he was wrapping.' The word 'while' indicates that Santa's wrapping rate applies only during the actual wrapping. The notion that there was no interruption would be an unsupported assumption. Hence we don't know how long Santa was actually wrapping and cannot calculate the number of presents he wrapped. Not sufficient.

(1)+(2) We still don't know the exact time of the interruptions, and given the unknown duration of the interruptions, we can't determine the actual time spent wrapping. Not sufficient.


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They always learn to completly ignore statement 1 when trying to analyse statement 2

And the fact statement 1 talked about interuptions, made me take a stance that the question didn't say breaks specificaly so why should I assume there were?
Also, I work 8 hours a day that doesn't mean I dont get interupted

If Santa wraps for 10 hours at an average rate of 15 per hour, that includes breaks in my opinion...
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I answered B of course

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­hey bb i marked e , but i was confused with what he says , can you elaborate a bit more on explaination of b
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On Christmas Eve, Santa began wrapping presents from his sack. He started wrapping the first present at 1:00 p.m. and finished wrapping the last one at 11:00 p.m. Did he wrap more than 120 presents during that period?

(1) During that period, Santa was interrupted three times by visits from reindeer needing attention.

This statement does not give us any useful piece of information. Not sufficient.

(2) Santa's average rate while he was wrapping was 15 presents per hour.

It's tempting to say that Santa was wrapping for 10 hours and thus he wrapped 10*15 = 150 presents. However, it's important to consider that the question specifically refers to the 'average rate WHILE he was wrapping.' The word 'while' indicates that Santa's wrapping rate applies only during the actual wrapping. The notion that there was no interruption would be an unsupported assumption. Hence we don't know how long Santa was actually wrapping and cannot calculate the number of presents he wrapped. Not sufficient.

(1)+(2) We still don't know the exact time of the interruptions, and given the unknown duration of the interruptions, we can't determine the actual time spent wrapping. Not sufficient.


Answer: E
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They always learn to completly ignore statement 1 when trying to analyse statement 2

And the fact statement 1 talked about interuptions, made me take a stance that the question didn't say breaks specificaly so why should I assume there were?
Also, I work 8 hours a day that doesn't mean I dont get interupted

If Santa wraps for 10 hours at an average rate of 15 per hour, that includes breaks in my opinion...
But the GMAT is the devil
I answered B of course

Thanks Bunuel
­hey bb i marked e , but i was confused with what he says , can you elaborate a bit more on explaination of b
­The second statement is insufficient on its own, regardless the info gioven in the first statement. Please re-read what the solution says:

It's tempting to say that Santa was wrapping for 10 hours and thus he wrapped 10*15 = 150 presents. However, it's important to consider that the question specifically refers to the 'average rate WHILE he was wrapping.' The word 'while' indicates that Santa's wrapping rate applies only during the actual wrapping. The notion that there was no interruption would be an unsupported assumption. Hence we don't know how long Santa was actually wrapping and cannot calculate the number of presents he wrapped. Not sufficient.
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nonsense lol
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I don't know about that, but definitely a more "fun" question so to speak, and seems someone was tired of writing the usual ones ;-) however, I wonder if Santa wraps presents from his sack? I would assume presents go into the big sack AFTER they are wrapped? 🤷‍♂️
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nonsense lol

The question is absolutely fine. I don't see anything nonsensical in it! It’s a standard work DS question where we should avoid making unstated assumptions. There’s also a similar distance and speed question from GMAT Prep Focus.
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I don't know about that, but definitely a more "fun" question so to speak, and seems someone was tired of writing the usual ones ;-) however, I wonder if Santa wraps presents from his sack? I would assume presents go into the big sack AFTER they are wrapped? 🤷‍♂️

Replaced "sack" with "box." Hope this works better. Thank you!
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