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St.1 and St.2 Must Agree 07 Dec 2016, 10:07
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Hello guys,
I did my 4th CAT on MGMAT and this questions came up: "Absolute Coordinates" you can look it up.

I know that on every official questions statement 1 and 2 must agree if they are both sufficient, meaning same result. For the question above every statment must lead to quadrant 1.
My question is: if I am 100% sure that I correctly found out that statment 1 is suffcient and quadrant 1 is the answer, can't I use this on statement 2? What I mean is try for example smart numbers only for quadrant 1, if they don't work, cross it off and pick A..

On this example I find that the "quadrant 1" is the correct answer from st.1
Then for st.2 I have -x < -y < |y| so I know that x>y. I pick smart numbers from quadrant 1: (x, y)=(3, 1) and I have -3<-1<|-1| which is true and so I choose (D).

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St.1 and St.2 Must Agree 08 Dec 2016, 08:28
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Hello guys,
I did my 4th CAT on MGMAT and this questions came up: "Absolute Coordinates" you can look it up.

I know that on every official questions statement 1 and 2 must agree if they are both sufficient, meaning same result. For the question above every statment must lead to quadrant 1.
My question is: if I am 100% sure that I correctly found out that statment 1 is suffcient and quadrant 1 is the answer, can't I use this on statement 2? What I mean is try for example smart numbers only for quadrant 1, if they don't work, cross it off and pick A..

On this example I find that the "quadrant 1" is the correct answer from st.1
Then for st.2 I have -x < -y < |y| so I know that x>y. I pick smart numbers from quadrant 1: (x, y)=(3, 1) and I have -3<-1<|-1| which is true and so I choose (D).
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you need to completely ignore the information given in statement 1. While it might be true that some cases that you picked when solving for statement 1 work for statement 2, you need to consider other cases, which work with statement 2 and not with statement 1.

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