Answer: A

S={w,x,y,z}

(1) w - z > 2 => w > z + 2

Now we can hav the following cases -

Case a) Say z is the least and w is greatest.
Then, to the answer to range of the numbers in S greater than 2 is YES

Case b) Say z is the least and w is not the greatest.
You have at least another number which is greater than w.
Then, to the answer to range of the numbers in S greater than 2 is YES

Case c) Say z is not the least and w is greatest.
You have at least another number which is less than z.
Then, to the answer to range of the numbers in S greater than 2 is YES

Case d) Say z is not the least and w is not the greatest.
You have at least another number which is less than z, and
at least another number which is greater than w.
Then, to the answer to range of the numbers in S greater than 2 is YES

Thus condition (1) is sufficient to answer it.


(2) Z is least. But no information regarding the other nos.
You do not know, by how much they are greater.

So the answer is A

Good explanation, Shiraj... Carry on, man.

maria wrote:if S is a set of four numbers w, x, y and z, is the range of the numbers in S greater than 2?
1. w - z> 2
2. z is the least number in S.

OA is A.
its explanation is:
1. the difference between two of the numbers in the set is greater than 2, which means that the range of the four numbers must also be greater than 2. SUFF.

I agree with the first part, but the second one, I am not quite sure why "which means that the range of the four numbers must also be greater than 2"?

help me, pls.

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Range is the difference between the smallest and largest numbers in a set.

We have no clue if w and z are the two furthest apart numbers in the set.

If they are the furthest apart, then the range will be |w - z| which we know is > 2.

If they aren't the furthest apart, then the range will be even bigger, so we also know that it will be > 2.

Either way, the range is > 2... sufficient.

Thank you all.