Data Sufficiency

If the product of 7 consecutive integers is not zero, is the product negative?

1.) The largest number is less than 7
2.) At least on of the numbers is negative

IMO -D
Please let me know if i am correct. i will explain you if my answer is correct

apoorva.srivastva wrote:If the product of 7 consecutive integers is not zero, is the product negative?

1.) The largest number is less than 7
2.) At least on of the numbers is negative

IMO D because:
product is non zero, so 0 is not one of the numbers.
tha means numbers are all negative or all positive.

1) largest number less than 7
the largest number cannot be positive because in that case 0 will be one of the numbers.
so all numbers are negative. product is negative.
SUFFICIENT

2) the numbers can either be all negative or all positive
one number is negative means all numbers are negative

SUFF

OA is D

If the product of 7 consecutive integers is not zero, is the product negative?

1.) The largest number is less than 7
2.) At least on of the numbers is negative

A alone is sufficient.As From the question stem and A it is clear that the 7 numbers here are all negative and hence their product is negative.

IMO D

vikram_k51 wrote:If the product of 7 consecutive integers is not zero, is the product negative?

1.) The largest number is less than 7
2.) At least on of the numbers is negative

A alone is sufficient.As From the question stem and A it is clear that the 7 numbers here are all negative and hence their product is negative.

BOTH are sufficient. Statement 2 is sufficient b/c if the integers are consecutive, and only one is negative, the other numbers could cross 0 and enter "positive territory." This would render the product of the numbers in the set equal to 0, which violates the condition stated in the original passage. Therefore, according to Statement 2, all the numbers must be negative.