During a Thanksgiving weekend, a car rental company rented seven-tenths of the vehicles with including three fifths of the 4WDs that it had. If 60% of the vehicles are 4WDs, then what percent of the vehicles that were not rented were not 4WDs?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 60%
E. 25%
The OA is A.
60% of the vehicles are 4WDs:
60 are 4WDs and 40 are not.
Seven tenths (70%) of the vehicles are rented:
70 rented and 30 not.
Three fifths of the 4WDs were rented:
(3/5)*60 = 36 4WDs were rented and 24 not.
So, out of 30 vehicles that were not rented 24 were 4WDs and 6 not: 6/30 = 20%. Option A.
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Another approach is to use the Double Matrix Method.BTGmoderatorLU wrote:During a Thanksgiving weekend, a car rental company rented seven-tenths of the vehicles with including three fifths of the 4WDs that it had. If 60% of the vehicles are 4WDs, then what percent of the vehicles that were not rented were not 4WDs?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 60%
E. 25%
The OA is A.
60% of the vehicles are 4WDs:
60 are 4WDs and 40 are not.
Seven tenths (70%) of the vehicles are rented:
70 rented and 30 not.
Three fifths of the 4WDs were rented:
(3/5)*60 = 36 4WDs were rented and 24 not.
So, out of 30 vehicles that were not rented 24 were 4WDs and 6 not: 6/30 = 20%. Option A.
Please, can anyone explain another way to solve this PS question? Thanks![/b]
This technique can be used for most questions featuring a population in which each member has two characteristics associated with it (aka overlapping sets questions).
Here, we have a population of vehicles, and the two characteristics are:
- rented or not rented
- 4WD or not 4WD
This question type is VERY COMMON on the GMAT, so be sure to master the technique.
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I'll leave it to you to try this approach. Then, once you're familiar with the technique, you can attempt these additional practice questions:
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If we let the total number of cars = 100, then 0.6 x 100 = 60 of the cars are 4WDs. We are given that 0.7 x 100 = 70 cars were rented and 3/5 x 60 = 36 4WD's were rented.BTGmoderatorLU wrote:During a Thanksgiving weekend, a car rental company rented seven-tenths of the vehicles with including three fifths of the 4WDs that it had. If 60% of the vehicles are 4WDs, then what percent of the vehicles that were not rented were not 4WDs?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 60%
E. 25%
Thus, 100 - 70 = 30 cars were not rented and of those 30 cars, 60 - 36 = 24 were 4WDs. So 30 - 24 = 6 cars that were not rented were not 4WDs.
So we have 6/30 = 1/5 = 20% of the cars that were not rented were not 4WDs.
Answer: A
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