Hussain15 wrote:
Store S sold a total of 90 copies of a certain book during the seven days of last week, and it sold different numbers of copies on any two of the days. If for the seven days Store S sold the greatest number of copies on Saturday and the second greatest number of copies on Friday, did Store S sell more than 11 copies on Friday?
1) Last week Store S sold 8 copies on Thursday.
2) Last week Store S sold 38 copies on Saturday
Thanks "jimmy86" to help us dig out this interesting question for others to take a look at. Kudos+1.
Sol:
1) Last week Store S sold 8 copies on Thursday.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
Copies Sold(Friday>11) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 90-24=66 |
Copies Sold(Friday<=11) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 90-23=67 |
We did not violate any condition mentioned in the stem:
Every day the store sold different number of copies.
Greatest number of copies were sold on Saturday.
Second greatest number of copies were sold on Friday.
Order in which the rows were filled:
Row1: Thursday(8), Friday(12), Sunday(1), Monday(2), Tuesday(3), Wednesday(4), Saturday(90-(Sum of rest))
Row2: Thursday(8), Friday(11), Sunday(1), Monday(2), Tuesday(3), Wednesday(4), Saturday(90-(Sum of rest))
We proved that with 8 copies sold on the Thursday, the store could have sold 11 or more on the Friday.
Not Sufficient.
2) Last week Store S sold 38 copies on Saturday
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
Copies Sold(Friday>11) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 90-53=37 | 38 |
Copies Sold(Friday<=11) | X | X | X | X | X | 11 | 38 |
Row1: We showed one of the possible combinations of copies sold when the store sold more than 11 copies on Friday.
Order: Saturday(38), Sunday(1), Monday(2), Tuesday(3), Wednesday(4), Thursday(5), Friday(90-Sum of rest)
Row2: Saturday=38 and Friday=11
The store must sell (90-38-11)=(90-49)=41 copies in order to satisfy the stem.
We cannot possibly assign a number bigger than 11 for the rest of the days because Friday needs to be second greatest. Saturday is standing greatest with 38 and Friday is the second greatest with 11.
The maximum number of copies the store could sell on other days, given it sold 11 copies on Friday, would be 10+9+8+7+6=40, which is 1 short of the required number.
This proves that there were indeed more than 11 copies that were sold on the Friday. In fact, the minimum number of copies that could be sold on Friday with these conditions would be "12".
Sufficient.
Ans:"B"