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Six companies A, B, C, D, E & F manufacture chocolates. The bar chart given below shows the monthly demand in market for chocolates & manufacturing capacity per month of these companies
What the ratio of companies having more demand than capacity to those having more capacity than demand
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A: 1:2
B: 2:1
C: 1:5
D: 1:1
E: 5:1
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What the ratio of companies having more demand than capacity to those having more capacity than demand
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B: 2:1
C: 1:5
D: 1:1
E: 5:1
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PareshGmat
Dear PareshGmat,
I'm happy to help.
For more on ratios, see
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-quant ... oportions/
For this problem, the actual numbers given, the heights of the bars, are distractions. All we need is to make a binary decision about the six cases. For two companies, the blue bar is taller, i.e. demand is higher than capacity; for four companies, the red bar is taller, i.e. capacity is higher than demand. That's a ratio of 2:4 which simplifies to 1:2. Choice (A).
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
gmat tests on is good eye sight, I totally missed the last bar....correct me if I am wrong but would not this be an IR type question.
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