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Honestly I don't understand why E instead C.
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St 1 and St 2 together is not sufficient to answer this query.

We need dimensions of the garden rather than area as a whole.

If dimensions are 1*32, ans is no, whereas If dimensions are 6*5.333, ans is yes, as diameter of each circle is 4 yards.

Hence, Ans E
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Honestly I don't understand why E instead C.
The maximum distance four sprinkler can cover is 8 X 8 ( length and width)

Rectangle of area 32 can be in any dimension 1*32, 2*16, 8*4
For the rectangle of dimension 8*4 it can cover but for 2*16 it can't cover. since the maximum distance 4 sprinkler can cover is 8 in any direction

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It can actually cover a rectangle with dimensions 16x2. Place the 4 circles side by side. Each has a dia 4.
It cannot cover 32x1 though.
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Is this one of those hard questions from the new question set released recently by GMAC?
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Is this one of those hard questions from the new question set released recently by GMAC?

Yes. I've been working at the new book
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PFA the OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
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Honestly I don't understand why E instead C.
The maximum distance four sprinkler can cover is 8 X 8 ( length and width)

Rectangle of area 32 can be in any dimension 1*32, 2*16, 8*4
For the rectangle of dimension 8*4 it can cover but for 2*16 it can't cover. since the maximum distance 4 sprinkler can cover is 8 in any direction

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I'd like to disagree with the highlighted in red.
PFA the pics where the red regions are not covered.
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I chose E, seeing that the condition B says "maximum of 2 yards" i.e. it is not necessarily 2 yards, hence condition B is not sufficient.

Is my understanding incorrect?
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Honestly I don't understand why E instead C.

Cuz we dont know how the sprinklers are organized.

If they adjacent to each other too closely, they can’t water the entire lawn.

So to know that they can water the entire lawn or not, infos about organization of the sprinkler should be offered.

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Sprinklers are being installed to water a lawn. Each sprinkler waters in a circle. Can the lawn be watered completely by 4 installed sprinklers?

(1) The lawn is rectangular and its area is 32 square yards.
(2) Each sprinkler can completely water a circular area of lawn with a maximum radius of 2 yards.


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Each statement alone is clearly insufficient.

We will show both statements together are still insufficient, even in the particular case when the rectangle considered is a square.

It is easy to find a geometric configuration in which the answer to the question asked is "NO". Take the centers of all 4 circles at the center of the square, for instance.
(If you think the centers could not coincide, consider each one distinct to each other, but all of them very close to the center of the square.)

The geometric configuration shown in the last figure answers the question in the affirmative. To prove this is a viable possibility, please take into account two things:

1. In the figure on the left we present 4 "natural squares" that cover the big one.
2. In the central figure, we show that in the lengths offered, each of the 4 circles cover the corresponding "natural square".

The algebraic-geometric bifurcation presented guarantees the correct answer is (E).

We follow the notations and rationale taught in the GMATH method.

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Hi again.

This post was created in honor of careful readers.

In my last figure (above), all circles should pass through the center of the square.

The figure shown here is a better representation of what is really going on in the "YES" scenario.

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Although the answer is E, I would like to point out the mistake some guys posted above. I am 100% confident to say that a 4 x 8 rectangle CANNOT be watered by these four sprinklers.

--->putting the 4 circles in collinear will not work, because there will be some area between the edge of the circles to the edge of the rectangle.
--->nor will putting 2 above and 2 below work. there will be room leftover between the edges not watered.

only a square with area of 32 works, and the 4 sprinkers must be placed in one defined way.
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Sprinklers are being installed to water a lawn. Each sprinkler waters in a circle. Can the lawn be watered completely by 4 installed sprinklers?

(1) The lawn is rectangular and its area is 32 square yards.
(2) Each sprinkler can completely water a circular area of lawn with a maximum radius of 2 yards.

Statements combined:

Case 1: length = 32000 yards, width = 0.001 yard
In this case, the four sprinklers will clearly be unable to water all of the lawn, so the answer to the question stem is NO.

Case 2:
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In the figure above:
Each circle represents the area watered by each sprinkler, while the red square represents the area of the rectangular lawn.
Since the radius of each circle = 2 yards, each blue line is composed of four 2-yard radii and thus has a length of 8.
Since the red square has a diagonal of 8, each side of the lawn = \(\frac{8}{\sqrt{2}}\)
Thus, the area of the lawn = \(\frac{8}{\sqrt{2}}*\frac{8}{\sqrt{2}} = 32\)
In this case, the four sprinklers can water all of the 32-square-yard lawn, so the answer to the question stem is YES.

Since the answer is NO in Case 1 but YES in Case 2, the two statements combined are INSUFFICIENT.

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the location of the sprinklers in the lawn is not given. So can't we straight away select E rather than testing C?
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