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Post Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:48 pm
My take is D
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Post Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:46 am
i eliminated a,d,e and then guessed c instead of b. is c correct?
this is one of those questions to think about for one minute and then answer and move on!

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Post Tue May 17, 2011 8:13 am
My my...what a question.
I had guessed 'C'...But wasn't confident.
Dana's explanation was good, but mk101's analysis really drove the point home!
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Post Mon May 23, 2011 8:18 am
npunhani wrote:
A fantastic insight into the " Dirichlet's box principle "

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Post Mon May 23, 2011 8:55 am
Assume 5 trees - every tree has less than five leaves and every tree has at least one. There are four options for the number of leaves to choose from 1,2,3,4 and five trees. Four options/five trees - at least two trees must have the same number.

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C

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Post Sun May 29, 2011 9:14 am
The answer is C.

Take 5 trees, then the number of leaves = 1,2,3,4 (as # of leaves < 5) and the last tree has one of 1,2,3,4 leaves.

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Post Sun May 29, 2011 6:01 pm
IMO C

Post Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:19 pm
There are too many answers on this question as well as other daily question. How do I know which one is the right answer. I assume the right answer for this question is C
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If there are more oak trees in Oregon than there are leaves on any one Oregon oak tree, and if every Oregon oak tree has at least one leaf, then __________.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

A. the average number of oak leaves per Oregon oak tree must be less than half the number of Oregon oak trees
B. there are fewer leaves on at least one Oregon oak tree than half the number of those trees
C. there must be at least two oak trees in Oregon with the same number of leaves
D. there must be at least as many Oregon oak trees with half as many leaves as the Oregon tree with the most leaves, as there are Oregon oak trees with twice as many leaves as the Oregon oak tree with the fewest leaves
E. there must be more oak trees than any other type of tree in Oregon

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Post Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:39 am
The correct answer is C. Assume five oak trees. there are then four possibilities 1,2,3, or 4 leaves. 5 trees, 4 leaves, two must have the same number.

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Post Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:41 am
I got this correct. Yippie.

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Post Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:21 pm
IMO C
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If there are more oak trees in Oregon than there are leaves on any one Oregon oak tree, and if every Oregon oak tree has at least one leaf, then __________.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

A. the average number of oak leaves per Oregon oak tree must be less than half the number of Oregon oak trees
B. there are fewer leaves on at least one Oregon oak tree than half the number of those trees
C. there must be at least two oak trees in Oregon with the same number of leaves
D. there must be at least as many Oregon oak trees with half as many leaves as the Oregon tree with the most leaves, as there are Oregon oak trees with twice as many leaves as the Oregon oak tree with the fewest leaves
E. there must be more oak trees than any other type of tree in Oregon
no. of oak trees = n
n>m (=max no. of leaves on a tree)
tress have 1,2,3,........m leaves. But as n>m, it means atleast two trees have same no. of leaves.

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Post Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:11 pm
C.. It was more of a math problem than a verbal one!

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Post Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:02 am
hmm tricky one indeed.

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