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What are you say about x=-8, y=2 in second condition?
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Walker thanks a lot for your example. Yes it does offer the answer. So this statement alone can also answer the question, so answer should be D.

One more thing there is one more relation between x and y.
It is y=x+10, alongwith x=-4y,

It will provide the values, which walker mentioned.

So Answer is D.
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Hey Everyone,

I'm still confused about Statement two? Can some one provide a slightly more detailed explanation?

I had 1/16x^2 = 1/y^2

I thought, since the exponent of 2 is there, a neg or pos is possible for each making this insuff.
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A list contains 11 consecutive integers. what is the greatest integer on the list?

1) If x is the smallest integer on the list, then (x+72)^1/3=4

2) If x is the smallest integer on the list, and y is the greatest integer on the list,
then 16x^-2=y^-2

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1. Easy to solve for x and hence to find the find the largest number

2. reduces to y= +/-4x (+4x rejected as it does not yield an integer value)which along with a difference of 10 between largest and smallest can be solved

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i am not sure what statement 2) is saying..can you post it clearly is it 1/16x^2 =1/y^2
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You can also do the algebra for stat 2 even though it will take some time

16x^-2=y^-2 and y-x = 10 (y is max, 11 integer diff)

if you solve that mess you will get x= -8 or x = -13.333 we are talking about integers so x is -8.
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wow tricky one...

Thanks for the help guys..I get it now
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why cant we express y=x+10...

since its consecutive integers we know x is smallest and y is largest..

(2)=16y^2=x^2

16(x+10)^2=x^2

16(x^2+20x+100)=x^2
15x^2+16.20x+16.100=0

since this is a qudratic equation..there will be 2 solutions..

so i dont know (2) is sufficient..

I would go with A..

why is my approach to (2) wrong?
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why cant we express y=x+10...

since its consecutive integers we know x is smallest and y is largest..

(2)=16y^2=x^2

16(x+10)^2=x^2

16(x^2+20x+100)=x^2
15x^2+16.20x+16.100=0

since this is a qudratic equation..there will be 2 solutions..

so i dont know (2) is sufficient..


I would go with A..

why is my approach to (2) wrong?

only one of two solutions is an integer. Therefore, 2) is sufficient.
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Okay with this approach - to get to the two roots we have to use the quadratic formula :

(-b+- sqrt( b^2- 4*a*c) ) / 2a --> then we get one root to be -80/6 and another to be -8. This calculation takes way too much time. So how do we know that only one root is an integer in test like situation ?


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why cant we express y=x+10...

since its consecutive integers we know x is smallest and y is largest..

(2)=16y^2=x^2

16(x+10)^2=x^2

16(x^2+20x+100)=x^2
15x^2+16.20x+16.100=0

since this is a qudratic equation..there will be 2 solutions..

so i dont know (2) is sufficient..


I would go with A..

why is my approach to (2) wrong?

only one of two solutions is an integer. Therefore, 2) is sufficient.
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So how do we know that only one root is an integer in test like situation ?

since its consecutive integers we know x is smallest and y is largest..
\(16y^2=x^2\)

I didn't solve the equation. Just logic...

1. we know that x|y|. It is possible if x is an negative integer and y is an positive integer.

2. we can also see that x=-4k: -4,-8,-12,... But all value of x smaller than -8 are not appropriate because y will be negative.

3. check x=-4 and x=-8 --> y=1 (y-x+1=6) and y=2 (y-x+1=11)

4. so, only x=-8, y=2 works.



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