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by sanju09 » Fri May 07, 2010 2:53 am
Forty percent of the rats included in an experiment were male rats. If some of the rats died during the experiment and 30 percent of the rats that died were male rats, what was the ratio of the death rate among the male rats to the death rate among the female rats?
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by liferocks » Fri May 07, 2010 9:41 am
Let total number of rat 100x and 100y rats dies in the experiment
hence
Total Died Death-rate
male 40x 30y 3y/4x
Female 60x 70y 7y/6x

So death rate of male rat : death rate of female rat=3y/4x :7y/6x =9:14

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by hephzi_bah » Fri May 07, 2010 2:28 pm
liferocks wrote:Let total number of rat 100x and 100y rats dies in the experiment
hence
Total Died Death-rate
male 40x 30y 4x/3y
Female 60x 70y 6x/7y

So death rate of male rat : death rate of female rat=4x/3y :6x/7y =14:9

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by liferocks » Fri May 07, 2010 4:47 pm
yea ..deth rate of female rates is 7y/6x not 6y/7x...corrected in the original post.
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by sanju09 » Sat May 08, 2010 3:04 am
hephzi_bah wrote:
liferocks wrote:Let total number of rat 100x and 100y rats dies in the experiment
hence
Total Died Death-rate
male 40x 30y 4x/3y
Female 60x 70y 6x/7y

So death rate of male rat : death rate of female rat=4x/3y :6x/7y =14:9

Ans 14:9
Please let me correct it.
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Hey, I liked the idea of writing response in hand scripts. Please tell all of us how to show it like you did it here, I hope it would bring revolution among the post writers who might be globally identified by their hand writings rather by a mere name.
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by gmatmachoman » Sat May 08, 2010 10:54 am
Yeah Sanju bhai.. i always wanted to write that way.. heard some sort of pen can be used to write on the screen..But wont that damage our screen???

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by hephzi_bah » Mon May 10, 2010 11:05 am
sanju09 wrote:
hephzi_bah wrote:
liferocks wrote:Let total number of rat 100x and 100y rats dies in the experiment
hence
Total Died Death-rate
male 40x 30y 4x/3y
Female 60x 70y 6x/7y

So death rate of male rat : death rate of female rat=4x/3y :6x/7y =14:9

Ans 14:9
Please let me correct it.
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Hey, I liked the idea of writing response in hand scripts. Please tell all of us how to show it like you did it here, I hope it would bring revolution among the post writers who might be globally identified by their hand writings rather by a mere name.
Well dear GMATters:

First: use a tablet or something to write better than a simple mouse.
Second: When POST something use INSERT IMAGE ( the image there was recorded on the web address in it)
Third: Post it...

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