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Madelyn has $400 to spend on her new school clothes and this is to cover the price of the clothes she buys and the sales tax on those items. Does Madelyn have less than 50 dollars left after completing her shopping?

(1) The total price of Madelyn's clothes was less than $400.
(2) Madelyn incurs no sales tax when purchasing school clothes.


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Madelyn has $400 to spend on her new school clothes and this is to cover the price of the clothes she buys and the sales tax on those items. Does Madelyn have less than 50 dollars left after completing her shopping?

The question mentions Madelyn has $400 to purchase new clothes.
The total new clothes price = selling price of the school cloth + sales tax.

Is amount left post purchase is LESS THAN $50 ?

STATEMENT 1:

(1) The total price of Madelyn's clothes was less than $400.

The total price was less than $400. Less can be any amount $1, $2 or $399 or any value less than $400.
Not sufficient. Options A and D are out.

STATEMENT 2:

(2) Madelyn incurs no sales tax when purchasing school clothes.

No sales tax. Thus total price = selling price of new clothes.

we don’t have any value pertaining to total price or selling price.

Not Sufficient. We have ruled out option B also.

COMBINING STATEMENT 1 and STATEMENT 2:

We have options C and E now.

Combining this we can’t arrive conclusively to remaining amount. Hence option E
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