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A spaceship in orbit rotates around the planet Pluto. How many full rotations can the spaceship complete in 20 hours?

(1) The radius of the rotation is 21,000 miles.
(2) The spaceship travels at 35 miles per second.


We require the radius of the orbit and the speed of spaceship to get full number of rotations.

(1) gives the radius of orbit, but we do not have speed. Not sufficient


(2) We have the speed, but no idea about radius of orbit. Not sufficient

Combining (1) and (2)

We can get circumference (so one rotation distance is known).

We know speed. so total distance covered is known.

We can get number of full revolutions.

Sufficient.

C is the answer.
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A spaceship in orbit rotates around the planet Pluto. How many full rotations can the spaceship complete in 20 hours?

(1) The radius of the rotation is 21,000 miles.
(2) The spaceship travels at 35 miles per second.

(1) The radius of the rotation is 21,000 miles.
We will get the circumference of the rotation, but we don't know how much circumference the spaceship travels in what time. Not sufficient.

(2) The spaceship travels at 35 miles per second.
We know the speed, but we don't know how much total distance it has to cover. Not sufficient.

Combining both statements:- We can get the distance traveled in 20 hrs and number of rotations in 20 hrs. Sufficient.
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rotation is a wrong term to use for this question. The question should say revolution. Spaceship revolves 'around' pluto. Planets rotate 'on' their axis.
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A spaceship in orbit rotates around the planet Pluto. How many full rotations can the spaceship complete in 20 hours?

In order to calculate the number of rotations, we need the distance covered in each rotation and the speed of the spaceship.

Statement 1: The radius of the rotation is 21,000 miles
There is no information about the speed.
(Insufficient)

Statement 2: The spaceship travels at 35 miles per second.
There is NO information about the distance.
(Insufficient)

Combining both statements:
We have information about both the speed and the distance.
We can calculate the number of rotations in 20 hours.
(Sufficient)
*In D.S Qs, we dont need to calculate the exact answer for the question. But if we are convinced that we can find a definite answer for the question stem, that's sufficient to mark the corresponding answer options.

Option C is the answer.

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