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Ratio of number of houses with smoke alarm to houses with no smoke alarm

(1) Number of houses with no smoke alarm = 7/18 of total number of houses,
Number of houses with smoke alarm = 1-(7/18) ie. 11/18 of total number of houses .
From this required ratio can be calculated. Sufficient

BCE eliminated.

(2) With just total number of houses, it is not possible to find the ratio of number of houses with alarm to houses with no alarm. Insufficient

A is correct.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Hi All,

We're asked for the ratio of houses with smoke alarms to houses without smoke alarms on Gleaner Street. This is a value question; since it asks us for a RATIO, there are a couple of different ways that we can answer it (we either need the exact number of each type of house OR some other way to define the relationship between those two numbers).

1) On Gleaner Street, 7/18 of the houses do not have smoke alarms.

With the information in Fact 1, we know that the total number of houses is some multiple of 18 AND that the number without smoke alarms would be an equivalent multiple of 7. This creates a pattern....

IF... there were 18 houses, 7 would NOT have a smoke alarm and the remaining 11 would... so the answer to the question would be 11:7
IF... there were 36 houses, 14 would NOT have a smoke alarm and the remaining 22 would... so the answer to the question would be 22:14 = 11:7
IF... there were 54 houses, 21 would NOT have a smoke alarm and the remaining 33 would... so the answer to the question would be 33:21 = 11:7
Etc.
The answer to the question is ALWAYS 11:7
Fact 1 is SUFFICIENT

2) There are 90 houses on Gleaner Street.

Fact 2 gives us the total number of houses, but tells us NOTHING about the number that have (or do not have) a smoke alarm.
Fact 2 is INSUFFICIENT

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There answer is clearly A since we it asks us the ration and not the amount. so 1st statement sufficient.
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