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80.
Solving method is same as economist's method. 4 of them got 300 seniors. Remaining two got 100. 1 must be at least 20, so the other can be at most 80.
Guess this is a typo :) BTW question says "If three-quarters of the seniors major in one of four subjects".. so why have you taken TWO as the remaining subjects instead of 3 ?
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Hi,

Think that there is a mistake in the Q.
If each of the 6 subjects has 20 seniors min and one of four has 3/4 then we have 300,20,20,20,20,20 split and no ans is correct

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80.
Solving method is same as economist's method. 4 of them got 300 seniors. Remaining two got 100. 1 must be at least 20, so the other can be at most 80.
Guess this is a typo :) BTW question says "If three-quarters of the seniors major in one of four subjects".. so why have you taken TWO as the remaining subjects instead of 3 ?
There are 6 subjects and problem says that : " If three-quarters of the seniors major in one of four subjects,". This means 300 are majoring in 4 subjects. "One of four" implies; distribution is not important. So there are 6-4=2 subjects remaining for majoring ;)

Also the sentence : "what is the greatest possible number of seniors majoring in one of the other two subjects?
" in the problem makes my opinion true.
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Guys this is a princeton review free test question and the answer is 80.
However,I agree with BG..someone pls explain
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There are 6 subjects and problem says that : " If three-quarters of the seniors major in one of four subjects,". This means 300 are majoring in 4 subjects.
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Hi,

Think that there is a mistake in the Q.
If each of the 6 subjects has 20 seniors min and one of four has 3/4 then we have 300,20,20,20,20,20 split and no ans is correct

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Agree with BG here. The wording is tricky here. "One of 4 subjects" suggests 1 subject has 3/4th seniors enrolled for it. But if that is the case, why "of 4" and not "6". The meaning would still have remained the same. It seems that the wording should have been "If three-quarters of the seniors major in four subjects.."
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A certain college has a total of 400 seniors, each majoring in exactly one of six subjects. A minimum of 20 seniors major in each of the six subjects. If three-quarters of the seniors major in one of four subjects, what is the greatest possible number of seniors majoring in one of the other two subjects?

100
80
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60
50


This is not a difficult question and I also got 80 however wording is not clear as "one of four subjects" doesnot mean four. If 80 is OA, then 3/4 of 400 (i.e. 300) take 4 subjects.

If "one of four subjects" were written as only "four subjects", it would be much clearer.
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Indeed its a simple question..but the wording is very unclear here..Do you think questions with such ambiguous wordings appear on the Gmat?
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Indeed its a simple question..but the wording is very unclear here..Do you think questions with such ambiguous wordings appear on the Gmat?

Hopefully not! ;)



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