mrinal2100 wrote:
Guests at a recent party ate a total of fifteen hamburgers. Each guest who was neither a student nor a vegetarian ate exactly one hamburger. No hamburger was eaten by any guest who was a student, a vegetarian, or both. If half of the guests were vegetarians, how many guests attended the party?
(1) The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
(2) 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
can someone explain in detail
This is what I drew when I read the Question stem. Half of the guests were vegetarians so Total/2 stands for the complete vegetarian circle. All outside Vegetarian circle are Total/2.
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Statement 1: Veg students : Veg non students = 2:3
Let me say they are 2x and 3x in number.
Non veg students : Non veg non-students = 4:3 (Since veg's ratio is half of non veg's ratio)
Let me say they are 4y and 3y in number.
So now my diagram looks like this:
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3y = 15 hence y = 5
Since 7y is half of the total, 35 is half of the total. So total number of students is 70. Sufficient.
Statement 2: We get that 30% of the guests were veg non students and we already know that 50% of the guests are veg so 20% of the guests are veg students. Essentially, we have got the 3:2 ratio of above. But we do not have the 4:3 ratio of above hence we cannot equate 15 to anything. Therefore, statement 2 is not sufficient alone.
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