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Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an undergraduate or a graduate student. If P is the probability that a randomly selected participant will be a female graduate student, is P less than \(\frac{1}{2}\)?

1) Of the participants, 24 are female.

2) Of the participants, 18 are graduate students.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   03 May 2016, 08:55
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Number of students = 50

Question asks whether number of female graduate students < 25.

St1: Female = 24 --> Even if all female are graduates, female graduate students < 25 --> Suffiicient

St2: Graduate students = 18 --> Even if all graduate students are female, female graduate students < 25 --> Sufficient

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Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2016, 09:29
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Hi all,

I tried to answer this question in the matrix form as attached. The answer I got is correct however, Im not sure if thats the right approach as the information from both statements isn't matching. I interpreted "Each of the 50 students is either an undergraduate or a graduate student" as by putting 0 in the relevant columns as shown. Where am I wrong?

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Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2016, 09:47
HarveyKlaus wrote:
Hi all,

I tried to answer this question in the matrix form as attached. The answer I got is correct however, Im not sure if thats the right approach as the information from both statements isn't matching. I interpreted "Each of the 50 students is either an undergraduate or a graduate student" as by putting 0 in the relevant columns as shown. Where am I wrong?

Thanks for your help!


Youve written that 0 males are undergrads and 0 females are graduates.

You should have put the total in the margin.

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The 'is either a or b' means theres no overlapping.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2016, 04:25
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Number of students = 50

Question asks whether number of female graduate students < 25.

St1: Female = 24 --> Even if all female are graduates, female graduate students < 25 --> Suffiicient

St2: Graduate students = 18 --> Even if all graduate students are female, female graduate students < 25 --> Sufficient

Answer: D


Beautiful explanation Vyshak!
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Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2017, 12:13
How do we know it's not all the undergraduates that are female making F=32 hence p(f)=1/2? Why are we assuming from the info given on (2) that F=18 or less?
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2017, 19:23
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If P is the probability that a randomly selected participant will be a female graduate student, is P less than 1212?

I misread the statement as asking for P within "graduate student" subset only. That is, the probability < 1/2 of picking a female within graduate student. Did not realize that probability asked is for the entire set of 50 students...

Did anyone else ran into this silly error? Or could the problem be worded more carefully??
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   18 Dec 2018, 22:13
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Statement 1: Out of 50 students, only 24 are female.
This implies, that the probability that random student selected is a female is 0.48 i.e. less than 0.5
So, the probability that any selected candidate is a female graduate is surely less than 0.5. Hence, Sufficient.
Statement 2: Out of 50 students, only 18 are graduate.
This implies that probability of total graduate is 0.36 i.e. less than 0.5
So, the probability that any selected candidate is a female graduate is surely less than 0.5. Hence, Sufficient.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   12 Jan 2019, 22:24
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Statement 1: Out of 50 students, only 24 are female.
This implies, that the probability that random student selected is a female is 0.48 i.e. less than 0.5
So, the probability that any selected candidate is a female graduate is surely less than 0.5. Hence, Sufficient.
Statement 2: Out of 50 students, only 18 are graduate.
This implies that probability of total graduate is 0.36 i.e. less than 0.5
So, the probability that any selected candidate is a female graduate is surely less than 0.5. Hence, Sufficient.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   12 Sep 2019, 07:35
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Yes it's D
Because by both statements we will get that number of females will be less than 25.
Nice question and a classic GMAT trap.
It's an official Gmat prep question. Exam pack 6.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   11 Feb 2021, 18:58
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P = female grads / females + males < 1/2?

St1 - 24 females
Suppose
P = 24 / 50 < 1/2 YES
P = 12 / 50 < 1/2 YES

Sufficient.

St2 - 18 grad students
This means that irrespective of the number of female grad students, the total # of female grad students will always be less than 50%.
Sufficient.

D.
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   02 Sep 2021, 11:04
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Correct option D

We have : Students - 50 Nos
to prove : Female Graduate less than 50%

1) Of the participants, 24 are female - (24/50) - 48%, if all female are graduate - condition fullfiled - Sufficient
2) Of the participants, 18 are graduate students - (18/50) - 36% -, if all graduate are female, condition fullfilled - Sufficient

Elimanates - A, B , C, and E
Winner - D
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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   09 Oct 2021, 05:04
Just a small trick:- Max number of female graduate students = number of female (if all female are graduates) or number of graduates (if all graduates are female)


S1- Max number of female graduate students = number of female (if all female are graduates)
24/50 < 1/2
so a number smaller than 24 will definitely be less than 1/2.
Sufficient

S1- Max number of female graduate students = number of graduates (if all graduates are female)
18/50 < 1/2
so a number smaller than 18 will definitely be less than 1/2.
Sufficient

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Re: Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an under [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2023, 09:36
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