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Is \(x |y| > y^2\)?

(1) \(x > 0\)

(2) \(x > y\)

Note \(y^2 = |y|^2 = |y| * |y|\).

\(x |y| > y^2 ?\) can be simplified to \(x > |y| ?\) by diving both sides by |y|, which must be a positive value. (y cannot be 0 or else 0 > 0)

Statement 1:

We want to know if x is greater than some positive value |y|, so knowing x is positive doesn't help much. Insufficient.

Statement 2:

If x > y was 2 > -3, then we can have x < |y|. And of course if x > y was 3 > 2 then x > |y| so insufficient.

Combined:

Note statement 1 was basically useless information so combining is insufficient.

Ans: E
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