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Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2018, 14:27
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Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X and Y. If 20 % of the applicants who applied college X and 25% of the applicants who applied college Y applied both college X and Y, how many applicants applied only college X or college Y?

(A) 135
(B) 120
(C) 115
(D) 105
(E) 90
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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2018, 14:27
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Bunuel wrote:
Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X and Y. If 20 % of the applicants who applied college X and 25% of the applicants who applied college Y applied both college X and Y, how many applicants applied only college X or college Y?

(A) 135
(B) 120
(C) 115
(D) 105
(E) 90


Question means the following:
15 people applied to both college X and Y, these 15 people represent 20% of all applicants who applied to X and 25% of all applicants who applied to Y.


\(0.2*x=15\) --> \(x=75\) --> # of people who applied only to X is: \(75-15=60\);
\(0.25*y=15\) --> \(y=60\) --> # of people who applied only to Y is: \(60-15=45\);

# of people who applied only to X OR Y is: \(60+45=105\).

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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2018, 14:38
Set up double matrix

(1/4)*y = 15
y=60

(1/5)*x = 15
x= 75

(75-15) + (60-15) = 105
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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2018, 10:21
in x
when both is 20 then x= 100
15. 100*15/20
=75
only x = 60
likely
y= 60
only y = 45
so only x and y = 60+45
=105

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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   16 Oct 2018, 10:24
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Why is the equation not 0.2x+0.25y=15. Isn't the question saying this
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Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   17 Oct 2018, 06:43
gmatkillerdude wrote:
Why is the equation not 0.2x+0.25y=15. Isn't the question saying this

it's saying 0.2x = 15 or 0.25y = 15 // 0.2x = 0.25y
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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   17 Oct 2018, 19:02
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Letting x = the number of applicants who applied to college X and y = the number of applicants who applied to college Y, we have:

0.2x = 15 and 0.25y = 15

So x = 75 and y = 60. We can use the following formula to determine the total number of applicants:

Total = College X + Collge Y - Both colleges

Total = 75 + 60 - 15

Total = 120

Since 15 of 120 applicants applied to both colleges, then 120 - 15 = 105 applicants applied to either college (but not both).

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Re: Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   30 Oct 2018, 05:13
pandeyashwin wrote:
gmatkillerdude wrote:
Why is the equation not 0.2x+0.25y=15. Isn't the question saying this

it's saying 0.2x = 15 or 0.25y = 15 // 0.2x = 0.25y


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I agree that the question stem quite misleads.
I also thought that it is 0.2x+0.25y=15 since it was written " If 20 % of the applicants who applied college X and 25% of the applicants who applied college Y applied both college X and Y". the *and* part is quite ambiguous.

could you please let me know if I missed anything in the Qs? (when I read the explanations, I easily realized what the right answer was)
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Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X [#permalink] New post   22 Sep 2021, 10:53
Wow! The question's language is so bad that I had to complain about it in frustration. How can anyone make sense of this?

Once, I saw Bunuel's response, I understood what was being said. I sure do hope, GMAT never does this nasty trick just to make an easy question hair-pullingly frustrating.

This is how the question sounded to me - A sample representation: 10 go to 30 from 50 left. how many go?

I didn't want to just complain so here is a better version of the question :

Of the applicants who passed a certain test, 15 applied to both college X and Y. If 20% of the passing applicants who applied to college X and 25% of the passing applicants who applied to college Y are both equal to the number of passing applicants who applied to both X and Y. How many passing applicants have applied to only college X or college Y?
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