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by zagcollins » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:21 pm
At a certain college, there are twice as many English majors as history majors and three times as many English majors as math majors.What is the ratio of history to math?

A.6:1
B.3:2
C.2:3
D.1:5
E.1:6


OA is C
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by sudhir_83k » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:30 am
Is the solution for the answer is C
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by amitansu » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:50 am
It's 'B'.


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by ricky » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:20 am
i E= 2H
ii E= 3M

Divide i by ii

2H/3M=1 =>H/M = 3/2
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by dbart06 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:29 pm
IMO C

2e=h
3e=m

h/m = 2e/3e = 2/3
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by ildude02 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:38 pm
I agree with Ricky.

From the question there are twice as many engligh as history students, so english is > history.

e = 2h and the same goes to english and math, so e = 3m.
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by dbart06 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:43 pm
How are some of you coming up with E=2h. The question state twice as many english majors as history. If there is 1 history major, then there are 2 english majors..hence 2e=h
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by dbart06 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:52 pm
How stupid on my part..answer is 3:2. A simple trap by GMAT.
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by singhr10 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:28 pm
Ans is 2:3 and not 3:2

2E = H
3E = M

H/E=2:1
lly E/M = 1:3

Hence H:M = 2:3
Ans is C
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by dbart06 » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:54 am
I did confirm from another poston same question, the answer is 3:2. Heres how:
1) twice as many english as history. If there are 10 history then there are 20 english...e=2h...simply plug in 10 to the equation and you get 20 for english. In your equation..2e=h, you would get english equals 5, which is not correct. The same goes for the other equation.

After all is said & done...answer = 3:2

Hope it helps....there are other post on the same question
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