TriColor wrote:
Q12:
A certain dealership has a number of cars to be sold by its salespeople. How many cars are to be sold?
(1) If each of the salespeople sales 4 of the cars, 23 cars will remain unsold.
(2) If each of the salespeople sales 6 of the cars, 5 cars will remain unsold.
A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
They don't really give you an equation in the stem, all we need to find is T, given that X(i)*S(j) = Cars to be sold, where i,j denote the observations: numbers of cars for observation (i) sold per seller (j). In other words, how many cars each person sells (we don't know that everyone sells equally many cars).
1) This gives us x(i) = 4 for all observations x(i). So we have 4*S = T - 23 <-- this many cars have been sold. Clearly insufficient, we have 2 variables.
2) This gives us x(i) = 6, for all x(i).. So we have 6*S = T - 5.. Also insufficient, for the same reason as 1.
1 + 2. First, note that the information in 1 and 2 is NOT the same, one is not a multiple of the other. So we have 2 equations, 2 unknowns, and thus we can solve for T.
Answer: C