At a corporate board meeting, two advertising ideas A and B are preese

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At a corporate board meeting, two advertising ideas A and B are preesented such that each board member supports one but not the other. Of the board members, 45 percent support idea A and the remaining support idea B. How many board members are in favor of advertising heavily in social media?

(1) Of the supporters of Idea A, 58 percent are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.

(2) Of the supporters of Idea B, 22 are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.

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ManifestDreamMBA · Answer

Supporting A - 45%
Supporting none or both = 0
Supporting B - 55%

In favour of social media heavy advertising?

We need to know the number of folks who support social media advertising from both the groups.

Statement 1:
We don't have any numbers
We just know of the 45% supporting A, 58% support heavy social media advertising. Which gives effect % but we don't have the total
Insufficient

Statment 2:
Great, we have Supporting B and heavy social media advertising = 22
But we don't know how many of those supporting A also support social media advertising and have no relation to calculate the same
Insufficient

Combined as well it is insufficient. E

GMATinsight · Answer

A = 45%
B = 55%

Question: How many board members are in favor of advertising heavily in social media?

So we need to know which idea favours advertising heavily in Social media and also we need to know the number of people equivalent to percentage

Statement 1  : Of the supporters of Idea A, 58 percent are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.

We don't know
1) The percentage of other idea who heavily support Ad in Social Media
2) Comparison of percentage of people with actual count of people hence
  NOT SUFFICIENT

Statement 2  :Of the supporters of Idea B, 22 are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.

We don't know
1) The percentage of other idea who heavily support Ad in Social Media
2) Comparison of percentage of people with actual count of people hence
  NOT SUFFICIENT

Combining the statements

We don't know
1) Comparison of percentage of people with actual count of people hence 
 
  NOT SUFFICIENT

Answer: Option E

NextstopISB · Answer

Given Information:

45% support A

55% support B

No one supports both or neither

Question:
Do we have enough information to determine how many people from both groups support heavy social media advertising?

Statement 1:

45% support A, and 58% support heavy social media advertising.

We know the overall percentage but lack the total number of people.
Insufficient.

Statement 2:

22 people support both B and heavy social media advertising.

However, we don’t know how many A supporters favor heavy social media advertising, nor can we derive it.
Insufficient.

Combining both statements:

Even with both data points, we cannot determine the number of A supporters who favor heavy social media advertising.
Insufficient. Answer: Option E.

GmatTest2026 · Answer

Why can't we have option C as an answer? We can set up the matrix and can get the answer.

Favor Social Media 
 
 Don't Favor Social Media

Support A  
 0.58(0.45N)  
 0.42(0.45N) 
 
  Support B  
 22  
 0.55N - 22 
 
  Total 
 0.58(0.45N) + 22 
 72.73

Whoisdmx15 · Answer

At a corporate board meeting, two advertising ideas A and B are presented such that each board member supports one but not the other. Of the board members, 45 percent support idea A and the remaining support idea B. How many board members are in favor of advertising heavily in social media?

Let total baard members be T
Gives A = .45*T, B = .55*T AUB=0
No. of adv in social media (HASM) ?

(1) Of the supporters of Idea A, 58 percent are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.
This only gives partial number of HASM = .58*.45*T, but no info about HASM in group B

(2) Of the supporters of Idea B, 22 are in favor of advertising heavily in social media.

This gives HASM in group B = 22

(1) and (2)
This only gives total HASM = .58*.45*T + 22

But as total number of Board Numbers is not known
 Hence in sufficient

Whoisdmx15 · Answer

We'll need to know N for us to be able to the exact numbers. N has not been provided b either of the statements

GmatTest2026 · Answer

Thank you so much for your response. Understood the logic.

Thank you,
Pooja

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	Favor Social Media	Don't Favor Social Media
Support A	0.58(0.45N)	0.42(0.45N)
Support B	22	0.55N - 22
Total	0.58(0.45N) + 22	72.73

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