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by ankurmit » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:31 pm
Alan's regular hourly wage is 1.5 times Barney's regular hourly wage, but Barney gets paid at twice his regular wage for any hours he works on Saturday. Both men work an integer number of hours on any given day. If Alan and Barney each worked for the same total non-zero number of hours last week, and earned the same total in wages, which of the following must be true?

I. Alan worked fewer hours Monday through Friday than did Barney.
II. Barney worked at least one hour on Saturday.
III. Barney made more money on Saturday than did Alan.
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by sumanr84 » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:54 pm
Please refer below thread, Stuart has explained very well..
https://www.beatthegmat.com/wages-and-wo ... 48636.html
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by aloneontheedge » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:57 pm
ankurmit wrote:Alan's regular hourly wage is 1.5 times Barney's regular hourly wage, but Barney gets paid at twice his regular wage for any hours he works on Saturday. Both men work an integer number of hours on any given day. If Alan and Barney each worked for the same total non-zero number of hours last week, and earned the same total in wages, which of the following must be true?

I. Alan worked fewer hours Monday through Friday than did Barney.
II. Barney worked at least one hour on Saturday.
III. Barney made more money on Saturday than did Alan.
IMO B: 1.5x(alan) = y(barney)
If this has to be true alan shud work for fewer hours

2) 1.5x = y
If this has to be true alan shud work atleast 1 hour on sat since the number od hours worked are equal
Take total as 2 hours
alan will earn 3$
If barney has to earn 3 dollars he has to work atleast 1 hour on sat n 1 hour on remaining day

3) Nothing has been specified but alan rate on saturday(I doubt whether i can use a=1.5y)
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