At a food fair, Nora bought 8 kilograms of nuts from each of two

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At a food fair, Nora bought 8 kilograms of nuts from each of two vendors, Green Market and Riverside Market. At Green Market, almonds cost $12 per kilogram, cashews cost $14 per kilogram, and pistachios cost $17 per kilogram. At Riverside Market, the corresponding prices were $13, $15, and $18 per kilogram. Did Nora spend more money at Riverside Market than at Green Market?

(1) The ratio of almonds to cashews to pistachios that Nora bought at Green Market was 6:1:1.

(2) The ratio of almonds to cashews to pistachios that Nora bought at Riverside Market was 1:3:4.

rajdeep212003 · Answer

Given:

Green Market prices → 12, 14, 17 
Riverside prices → 13, 15, 18

Each vendor total = 8 kg

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We need to compare total spending

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(1) Ratio at Green = 6 : 1 : 1

So quantities → 6k, k, k 
Total = 8k

Cost at Green = 
6k×12 + k×14 + k×17 
= 72k + 14k + 17k 
= 103k

Riverside unknown

So cannot compare

❌ Not sufficient

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(2) Ratio at Riverside = 1 : 3 : 4

So quantities → m, 3m, 4m 
Total = 8m

Cost at Riverside = 
m×13 + 3m×15 + 4m×18 
= 13m + 45m + 72m 
= 130m

Green unknown

So cannot compare

❌ Not sufficient

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(1) + (2):

Green = 103k 
Riverside = 130m

But k and m can be different

So we still cannot compare

❌ Not sufficient

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Final Answer:

E

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Adit_ · Answer

By briefly glancing at the problem we can already see that the option is either C or E only as we need to know the amount spent by both Green and Riverside.

Combining both:

But wait, both statements talk about the amount bought from that respective store.
There is no comparison made on amount of goods of one market with respect to the other.
One can have x number of items, and the other with n number of items and each time we dont know if x<n or n>x or n=x.
INSUFFICIENT.

Answer:  Option E

S1mple3 · Answer

Answer will be C. Total amount, ratio and rate of all the nuts are mentioned.

Adit_ · Answer

There is no comparison still of both the markets thus its not enough still!

dp1234 · Answer

IMO C

Let a, b, c be the amount (kg) almonds, cashews and pistachios at Green and p, q and r be the amount (kg) of almonds, cashews and pistachios at Riverside. Thus a+b+c=8 and p+q+r =8.

Money spend at Greens, G = 12a +14b+17c
Money spent at Riverside, R=13a +15b +18c

Question asks, is R>G ? Its a yes/no type, need not calculate actual values.

Statement 1: a:b:c = 6:1:1
then a=6k, b=k and c =k.
Also a+b+c =8. Substitute above in this equation, we get 8k=8 i.e. k=1
Thus a =6kg, b=1kg and c=1kg
Thus G = 12(6) +14(1) + 17(1) 
Now we know G, but don't know R. So NOT SUFFICIENT

Statement 2: p:q:r = 1:3:4
so we can say p=m, q=3m, and r=4m
p+q+r =8. Putting in values of p,q,r from above will give m=1.
p=1kg, q=3kg and r=4kg. 
Thus we can find value of R as we did for G above. 
So we know R but we don't know G. So NOT SUFFICIENT

But taken together, we know both G & R and we can find out if R>G or not. (although outcome is not relevant, its just that we can find it) SUFFICIENT.

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