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by daniyatom » Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:06 pm
First of all, thanks to everyone here for providing solutions to the problems that i have encountered.

This looks like an easy question, and I am convinced that the answer is E, but per GMATprep, the answer is C

A certain list consist of several different integers. Is the product of all integers in this list positive?
1)The product of the greatest and smallest of then integers in the list is positive
2) There is an even number of integers in that list.

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by pepeprepa » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:21 pm
1)
Either all the numbers in the list are positive or all the numbers in the list are negative given we take the smallest and the biggest.
Nevertheless, we cannot say if the product of all the numbers is positive or negative given that it is possible that in the case of a list of only negative number, there is an odd number of integers.

2)
Does not help us, because it is possible there are some positive and some negative numbers.

1) and 2)
We know all the numbers are either all positive or all negative.
There is an even number of integers, so in case of the list with only negative integers, the product of them is positive. In the case of only positive integers, the product of them is positive.
So C
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by sharad » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:14 pm
Sorry but I dont understand the reasoning provided above...
"We know all the numbers are either all positive or all negative. "
I'm not sure how are you deriving on this

Why does list contains intergers with same sign... positive or negative
A list can be {-10,-9,6, -2}.
This also satifies the condition in 1 & 2

hence IMO E
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by uncbeers » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:01 am
sharad wrote:Sorry but I dont understand the reasoning provided above...
"We know all the numbers are either all positive or all negative. "
I'm not sure how are you deriving on this

Why does list contains intergers with same sign... positive or negative
A list can be {-10,-9,6, -2}.
This also satifies the condition in 1 & 2

hence IMO E
Your example does not actually satisfy statement #1.

1)The product of the greatest and smallest of the integers in the list is positive

In your example -10 x 6 = -60. As long as the greatest integer is 0 or above your set of numbers does not work.

Make sense now?
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by sharad » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:52 am
agree with you... C is correct
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