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by resilient » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:01 pm
Mr. Oduste owns two kinds of stock shares: r shares of stock x and r shares of stock y. stock x yields an annual dividend of 2%, while stick y yields an annual dividend of 6%. If mr. Oduste were to sell all of his shares of stock x and use that money to buy shares of stock y, by what percent would his annual dividend increase.



qa is a.

I was sure that answer C is correct. I plugged in numbers and cant understand how a can be solution. IF we dont know the actual values of of the stock, then the increases can be much different from case to case!

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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:00 pm
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by resilient » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:25 pm
statement 1. Each share of stock x costs twice as much as each share or stock Y.

statement 2. each share of stock y costs $45
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