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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.
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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.

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(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
=> X's score = 2X + 14. A = X's score of the first half of the game
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.
=> Y's score = X's score + 4
(1) + (2) => Cannot know the final score between X and Y
=> Ans: E
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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.

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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:

Question Type: What Is the Value? This question asks for the final score of a game between two teams, X and Y.

Given information from the question stem: This question is seeking a specific value for the final score in game between team X and team Y.

Statement 1: This statement tells you that the first-half score for X + 14 = the Second Half Score for X. This statement is clearly not sufficient as it does not give
you a score for either team X or Team Y. Eliminate choices A and D.

Statement 2: This statement tells you that during the first half the two teams scored equal points but that during the second half team y scored 4 more points. This statement also does not give you any fixed value for the score of X or of Y. Also not sufficient: Eliminate choice B.

Together: Even taken together these two statements do not yield enough information. Neither statement gives you an actual number. Playing Devil’s Advocate, you could simply choose 10 as the number of points each team scored in the first half. Then add 14 points to X’s first-half score to get the second-half score according to Statement 1, so x would score 10+24 = 34 points. Y scored 4 more than X (Statement 2) so that would mean 38 points for Y. But there is no reason why “10” should be the first-half score any more than “20” or “100.” This question allows for an infinite variety of final scores. The information is not sufficient.

The answer is E.
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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.

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Question Type: What Is the Value? This question asks for the final score of a game between two teams, X and Y.

Given information from the question stem: This question is seeking a specific value for the final score in game between team X and team Y.

Statement 1: This statement tells you that the first-half score for X + 14 = the Second Half Score for X. This statement is clearly not sufficient as it does not give
you a score for either team X or Team Y. Eliminate choices A and D.

Statement 2: This statement tells you that during the first half the two teams scored equal points but that during the second half team y scored 4 more points. This statement also does not give you any fixed value for the score of X or of Y. Also not sufficient: Eliminate choice B.

Together: Even taken together these two statements do not yield enough information. Neither statement gives you an actual number. Playing Devil’s Advocate, you could simply choose 10 as the number of points each team scored in the first half. Then add 14 points to X’s first-half score to get the second-half score according to Statement 1, so x would score 10+24 = 34 points. Y scored 4 more than X (Statement 2) so that would mean 38 points for Y. But there is no reason why “10” should be the first-half score any more than “20” or “100.” This question allows for an infinite variety of final scores. The information is not sufficient.

The answer is E.
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I came up with the answer C

1) lets take two half of x scores as X1 & X2

X2 = X1+14

Not Sufficient

2) scores are tied at the end of first half

X1 = Y1

Team Y scored 4 points more than X

Y1 + Y2 = X1 + X2 + 4

this is also not sufficient. But if you combine both

Y1 + Y2 = Y1 + Y1 + 14 + 4

Y1 + Y2 = 18

Final Score of Y is 18.

Sufficient///////

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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.

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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:

Question Type: What Is the Value? This question asks for the final score of a game between two teams, X and Y.

Given information from the question stem: This question is seeking a specific value for the final score in game between team X and team Y.

Statement 1: This statement tells you that the first-half score for X + 14 = the Second Half Score for X. This statement is clearly not sufficient as it does not give
you a score for either team X or Team Y. Eliminate choices A and D.

Statement 2: This statement tells you that during the first half the two teams scored equal points but that during the second half team y scored 4 more points. This statement also does not give you any fixed value for the score of X or of Y. Also not sufficient: Eliminate choice B.

Together: Even taken together these two statements do not yield enough information. Neither statement gives you an actual number. Playing Devil’s Advocate, you could simply choose 10 as the number of points each team scored in the first half. Then add 14 points to X’s first-half score to get the second-half score according to Statement 1, so x would score 10+24 = 34 points. Y scored 4 more than X (Statement 2) so that would mean 38 points for Y. But there is no reason why “10” should be the first-half score any more than “20” or “100.” This question allows for an infinite variety of final scores. The information is not sufficient.

The answer is E.


I came up with the answer C

1) lets take two half of x scores as X1 & X2

X2 = X1+14

Not Sufficient

2) scores are tied at the end of first half

X1 = Y1

Team Y scored 4 points more than X

Y1 + Y2 = X1 + X2 + 4

this is also not sufficient. But if you combine both

Y1 + Y2 = Y1 + Y1 + 14 + 4

Y1 + Y2 = 18

Final Score of Y is 18.

Sufficient///////

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you are wrong in coloured portion..

Y1 + Y2 = Y1 + Y1 + 14 + 4 means Y2=2*Y1+18-Y1....Y2=Y1+18...
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What was the final score in a game between Team X and Team Y?

(1) Team X scored 14 more points during the second half of the game than it scored during the first half.
(2) At the end of the first half of the game, the score was tied, but team Y won the game by 4 points.

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Question Type: What Is the Value? This question asks for the final score of a game between two teams, X and Y.

Given information from the question stem: This question is seeking a specific value for the final score in game between team X and team Y.

Statement 1: This statement tells you that the first-half score for X + 14 = the Second Half Score for X. This statement is clearly not sufficient as it does not give
you a score for either team X or Team Y. Eliminate choices A and D.

Statement 2: This statement tells you that during the first half the two teams scored equal points but that during the second half team y scored 4 more points. This statement also does not give you any fixed value for the score of X or of Y. Also not sufficient: Eliminate choice B.

Together: Even taken together these two statements do not yield enough information. Neither statement gives you an actual number. Playing Devil’s Advocate, you could simply choose 10 as the number of points each team scored in the first half. Then add 14 points to X’s first-half score to get the second-half score according to Statement 1, so x would score 10+24 = 34 points. Y scored 4 more than X (Statement 2) so that would mean 38 points for Y. But there is no reason why “10” should be the first-half score any more than “20” or “100.” This question allows for an infinite variety of final scores. The information is not sufficient.

The answer is E.


I came up with the answer C

1) lets take two half of x scores as X1 & X2

X2 = X1+14

Not Sufficient

2) scores are tied at the end of first half

X1 = Y1

Team Y scored 4 points more than X

Y1 + Y2 = X1 + X2 + 4

this is also not sufficient. But if you combine both

Y1 + Y2 = Y1 + Y1 + 14 + 4

Y1 + Y2 = 18

Final Score of Y is 18.

Sufficient///////

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Yes, you are wrong.

---- First half --- Second half --- Final
X ---- 10 ------------ 24 ------------- 34

Y ---- 10 ------------ 28 ------------- 38

---- First half --- Second half --- Final
X ---- 20 ------------ 34 ------------- 54

Y ---- 20 ------------ 38 ------------- 58

The final score in the first case is 34:38, while in the second case is 54:58.
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Statement 1. Since we don’t know the exact score of Team X and the score of Team Y remained unmentioned of, we cannot answer this question using statement 1 alone.
Statement 2. We cannot figure out the score of Team X and Team Y by statement 2. Hence, Insufficient.
Statement 1 & 2 together. Using statement 2 let’s take score to be equal at ‘a-a’ at the end of first half.
Now by statement 1, the score of team X at the end of the game must be a + 14.
Using statement 2 we can say that the score of team Y at the end of the game must be a + 18.
Since, we don’t know the value of a, we cannot calculate the final scores. Hence, Insufficient.
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