A basket has 5 apples

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by lunarpower » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:04 am
koolkartin wrote:Folks,

All math , logic aside. I believe its 1/2;
it is not.
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by hyk » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:42 pm
I got stuck on this so I just used a bit of intuition and process of elimination.

First two answer choices are the same probability. GMAT would never give you two correct (same) answers in different formats. Eliminate A and B.

1/2 is 50% probability. 50% seemed like quite a high chance of getting a rotten one considering there is only 1 in the basket. Eliminate D. and then eliminate E because 3/5 is an even higher probability.

Not the best approach but worked for me since I was stuck and time was ticking.