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by mandeepak » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:06 pm
If the sum of three integers is even, is the product of the three integers a multiple of 4 ?
(1) All three integers are equal.
(2) All three integers are even.

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by camitava » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:18 pm
If the sum of three integers is even, is the product of the three integers a multiple of 4 ?
(1) All three integers are equal.
(2) All three integers are even.
Let a + b + c is even and we want to a * b * c is a multiple of 4 or not!
Now if we take 1, a = b = c and again it has to be that a + b + c is even so that means a, b and c have to be even. So each of a, b and c is multiple of 2. So a * b * c should be multiple of 4.
According to 2, it is clearly saying that a, b and c are even so we can easily incorporate the above logic here.
So D.
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by samirpandeyit62 » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:52 pm
If the sum of three integers is even, is the product of the three integers a multiple of 4 ?

(1) All three integers are equal.
so all need to even so that sum is even, hence divisible by 4 SUFF

(2) All three integers are even.

same as above
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by moneyman » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:08 pm
Is picking numbers a good strategy to use here??
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by camitava » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:11 pm
Yop! U can also go with that, moneyman! It really depends whether u r able to break the Qs or not obvly in some limited time-period but not on the approach u r taking.
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