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A person bought x number of apples, y number of oranges, and z number of mangoes from a shop. What is the total price of this transaction if each apple costs $2, each orange costs $2.50, and each mango costs $3 ?

find x*2 + y*2.5 + z*3 = ?

(1) The number of apples bought is 12 more than the number of oranges bought. The number of mangoes bought is half the number of apples bought.
x= 12 + y
z = x/2
can't get to value of x, y, z from this [Not sufficient]

(2) The average number of fruits purchased from the three varieties is greater than 29 and less than 33.
It says that x, y, and z are between 29 and 33 (exclusive)
first of all, multiple values are possible of all three so multiple totals [Not sufficient]


Together: from z = x/2 and 29 <z> 33
x can take 2 values (x has to be a multiple of 2): 30 and 32. Based on this, z can have 2 values and y can have 2 values, respectively when x is 30 and x is 32
so total here x*2 + y*2.5 + z*3 = ? has 2 values. [Not sufficient]
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T = 2x+2.5y+3z=?

I) x=y+12 ~> y=x-12
z=x/2
x = unknown, can't solve for T ~> N.S.

II) 29<(x+y+z)/3<33 ~> 87<x+y+z<99
We don't know quantities, so we can't find out. N.S.

I+II) 87< x+x-12+(x/2) <99 ~> 198< 5x <222
The quantity of multiples of 5 between these numbers is greater than 1, so we have different possibilities, and therefore cannot determine the answer. N.S.
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­A person bought x number of apples, y number of oranges, and z number of mangoes from a shop. What is the total price of this transaction if each apple costs $2, each orange costs $2.50, and each mango costs $3 ?

(1) The number of apples bought is 12 more than the number of oranges bought. The number of mangoes bought is half the number of apples bought.

(2) The average number of fruits purchased from the three varieties is greater than 29 and less than 33.


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