please tell me the OA

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please tell me the OA

by jeegarm » Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:30 am
Q17:
Company S produces two kinds of stereos: basic and deluxe. Of the stereos produced by
Company S last month,
2/3
were basic and the rest were deluxe. If it takes
7/5
as many
hours to produce a deluxe stereo as it does to produce a basic stereo, then the number of
hours it took to produce the deluxe stereos last month was what fraction of the total
number of hours it took to produce all the stereos?

A.
7/17

B.
14/31

C.
7/15

D.

17/35
E.
1/2

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by Morgoth » Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:36 am
IMO 7/17

let total stereos = 60

2/3* 60 = 40 basic stereos

20 deluxe stereos

D = 7/5 * B

let Basic = 10
D = 14


total time = 10*40 + 20*14 = 680

deluxe time = 14*20 = 280


280/680 = 7/17