Last month, John had a total of 60 articles- shirts, suits or ties- dry cleaned at a cost of $300. If John had to pay for dry cleaning $2.00 for each tie, $5.00 for each shirt and $6.50 for each suit, did John have more suits than shirts dry cleaned last month?
(1) John had more than 12 ties dry cleaned last month.
(2) John paid more than $150 to have his suits dry cleaned last month.
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Answer is C. And answer to qn would be NO.
Explaination:
Clearly 1 and 2 alone are not sufficient so A,B,D are ruled out
We have total of 60 items.
From 2 we can deduce that AT LEAST 24 suits were given for washing. (As he paid > 150$ at rate of 6.5 per suit)
From 1 we already know that ties > 12.
That leaves us with max of 24 shirts (120$). (These will only reduce as Suits or Ties increase)
Let me know if it sounds correct.
Explaination:
Clearly 1 and 2 alone are not sufficient so A,B,D are ruled out
We have total of 60 items.
From 2 we can deduce that AT LEAST 24 suits were given for washing. (As he paid > 150$ at rate of 6.5 per suit)
From 1 we already know that ties > 12.
That leaves us with max of 24 shirts (120$). (These will only reduce as Suits or Ties increase)
Let me know if it sounds correct.
