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If $ defines a certain operation, is p $ q less than 20?

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Source: — Data Sufficiency |

by Ian Stewart » Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:20 am
Statement 1 tells us that we want to know if 2p^2 - q is less than 20, which we can't tell with no information about p or q. Statement 2 is clearly not sufficient alone, because we have no idea what this "$" operation does. Using both Statements, we can clearly evaluate p$q = 2p^2 - q and therefore answer any question about it, so the answer is C.
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