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by boomgoesthegmat » Fri May 06, 2016 12:33 pm
There are 4 more women than men on Centerville's board of education. If there are 10 members on the board, how many are women?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
E) 8

OA: D
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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Fri May 06, 2016 12:45 pm
boomgoesthegmat wrote:There are 4 more women than men on Centerville's board of education. If there are 10 members on the board, how many are women?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
E) 8

OA: D
One approach is to TEST each answer choice. I'll leave that to you to try.

Another option is to create and solve an equation.
Let W = # of women

There are 4 more women than men
In other words, there are 4 FEWER men than women.
So, W - 4 = # of men

There are 10 members on the board
So, (# of women) + (# of men) = 10
Or, W + (W - 4) = 10
Simplify: 2W - 4 = 10
So: 2W = 14
And: W = 7

Answer: D

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by regor60 » Mon May 09, 2016 6:12 am
boomgoesthegmat wrote:There are 4 more women than men on Centerville's board of education. If there are 10 members on the board, how many are women?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
E) 8

OA: D
As an aside, this question, and others modeled upon it, have gained some notoriety for being tricky when posed orally. See Fast Brain Slow Brain
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by [email protected] » Mon May 09, 2016 9:49 am
Hi boomgoesthegmat,

This question can be solved rather easily by TESTing THE ANSWERS.

We're told that there are 4 MORE women then men on the board and that there are 10 total board members. Since there are more women than men, women have to make up MORE than half of the 10 people.

Let's TEST Answer D: 7

IF.... there are 7 women...
There will be 7-4 = 3 men
7+3 = 10; this is an exact match for what we were told, so this MUST be the answer.

Final Answer: D

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by Jeff@TargetTestPrep » Mon May 09, 2016 10:33 am
boomgoesthegmat wrote:There are 4 more women than men on Centerville's board of education. If there are 10 members on the board, how many are women?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
E) 8

OA: D
Solution:

We can solve the problem by setting up a few equations. First let's define some variables.

m = number of men on the board

w = number of women on the board

We are given that there are 4 more women than men on the board. Let's express this in an equation.

w = m + 4

We are also given that there are a total of 10 members on the board. Let's express this in an equation.

m + w = 10

Since w = m + 4, we can substitute m + 4 for w into the equation m + w = 10 and we have:

m + m + 4 = 10

2m = 6

m = 3

Since m + w = 10, we know that 3 + w = 10 or w = 7.

The answer is D

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by Matt@VeritasPrep » Thu May 12, 2016 12:00 am
Men = m
Women = m + 4

m + m + 4 = 10

m = 3, but we want women, or m + 4, or 7.
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