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Today, Malvika is prepared a dish that needed one and a half

by AAPL » Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:53 am
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Today, Malvika is prepared a dish that needed one and a half bowl of noodles for 4 servings. How many bowls of noodles will Malvika use next Saturday?

1) Next Saturday, Malvika will make half the number of servings that she prepared earlier today.
2) Earlier today, Malvika used half a dozen bowls of noodles to prepare her dish.

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by Jay@ManhattanReview » Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:14 pm
AAPL wrote:GMAT Prep

Today, Malvika is prepared a dish that needed one and a half bowl of noodles for 4 servings. How many bowls of noodles will Malvika use next Saturday?

1) Next Saturday, Malvika will make half the number of servings that she prepared earlier today.
2) Earlier today, Malvika used half a dozen bowls of noodles to prepare her dish.

OA C
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by deloitte247 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:59 am
1.5 bowls are needed to make 4 servings of the dish.
Question=> How many bowls of noodles will Malvika use next Saturday?

Statement 1:Next Saturday, Malvika will make half the number of servings that she prepared earlier today.
This statement does not tell us the number of servings prepared today, hence, statement 1 is NOT SUFFICIENT.

Statement 2: Earlier today, Malvika used half a dozen bowls of noodles to prepare her dish.

1.5 bowls = 4 servings
12/2 bowls = x servings
$$Total\ servings\ earlier\ today=\frac{6\cdot4}{1.5}=\frac{24}{1.5}=16\ servings$$
but we don't know how much is needed for Saturday. So, statement 2 is also NOT SUFFICIENT.

Combining both statement 1 and 2
Earlier today, 6 bowls were used for 16 servings.
For Saturday Malvika, will use 1/2 the number of servings prepared earlier today = 1/2 of 16 = 8 servings on Saturday.
1.5 bowls = 4 servings
x bowls = 8 servings
Bowls of noodles needed for next Saturday = (8 * 1.5) / 4 = 3 bowls of noodles
Therefore, both statements together are SUFFICIENT.

Both statements together are SUFFICIENT. The answer is option C.
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