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by Java_85 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:32 pm
A manufacturer conducted a survey to determine how many people buy products P and Q. What fraction of the people surveyed said that they buy neither product P nor product Q?

(1) 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
(2) 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.
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by vinay1983 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:39 pm
Java_85 wrote:A manufacturer conducted a survey to determine how many people buy products P and Q. What fraction of the people surveyed said that they buy neither product P nor product Q?

(1) 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
(2) 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.
Is it C
You can, for example never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to!
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by Java_85 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:43 pm
Yes, It is, I think to answer this question we need to know how many people are buying both products P and Q, but question didn't say anything about it.
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Java_85 wrote:A manufacturer conducted a survey to determine how many people buy products P and Q. What fraction of the people surveyed said that they buy neither product P nor product Q?

(1) 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
(2) 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.
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by vinay1983 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:59 pm
This can be solved using the double matrix method. You have to quickly realize that Individually the statements are not enough. So combine and solve
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by rakeshd347 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:01 pm
Java_85 wrote:Yes, It is, I think to answer this question we need to know how many people are buying both products P and Q, but question didn't say anything about it.
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Java_85 wrote:A manufacturer conducted a survey to determine how many people buy products P and Q. What fraction of the people surveyed said that they buy neither product P nor product Q?

(1) 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
(2) 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.
Is it C
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answer should be C

we are asked about the fraction so two statements together are sufficient. Have a look at my explanation through attachment. i have used double matrix method to solve it.
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by vinay1983 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:18 pm
took the LCM of 2 and 3, say 6
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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:42 pm
Java_85 wrote:A manufacturer conducted a survey to determine how many people buy products P and Q. What fraction of the people surveyed said that they buy neither product P nor product Q?

(1) 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
(2) 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.

This is a great candidate for a technique called the Double Matrix Method. It can be used for most questions featuring a population in which each member has two criteria associated with it.
Here, the criteria are:
- buy product Q or not buy product Q
- buy product P or not buy product P
When I scan the two statements I see that they mention 1/3 of the people surveyed and 1/2 of the people surveyed. I also see that the target question asks us to find a fraction of the people surveyed (not the actual number). So, let's pick a nice number that works well with 1/3 and 1/2.
Let's say there 12 people were surveyed.

So, we'll start by setting up our diagram like this:
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Aside: To learn more about this technique, watch our free video: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat- ... ems?id=919

We want to find the fraction of the people surveyed said that they neither buy product P nor product Q. So, to answer this question, we need to know the number of people in the bottom right box (where the happy face is).
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We're now ready to check the statements.

Statement 1: 1/3 of the people surveyed said that they buy product P but not product Q.
1/3 of 12 = 4. So, 4 people buy product P but not product Q.
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Does this provide enough information to find the number of people in the bottom right box (where the happy face is)?
No.
Statement 1 is NOT SUFFICIENT

Statement 2: 1/2 of the people surveyed said that they buy product Q.
So, 6 people buy product Q, which means 6 people do not buy product Q
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Does this provide enough information to find the number of people in the bottom right box (where the happy face is)?
No.
Statement 2 is NOT SUFFICIENT


Statements 1 and 2 combined:
We get:
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Does this provide enough information to find the number of people in the bottom right box (where the happy face is)?
YES.
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Since the two boxed in the right-hand column must add to 6, the bottom right box must have 2 people, which means 2/12 people said that they neither buy product P nor product Q.

Since we can now answer the target question with certainty, the combined statements are SUFFICIENT

Answer = C

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sat Oct 05, 2013 5:42 pm
Here are 4 more Data Sufficiency questions that can be solved using the Double Matrix method:
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/05/ ... question-1
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/05/ ... question-3
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/ds-quest-t187706.html
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/ds-french-ja ... 22297.html

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