polter wrote:Malik's recipe for 2 servings of a certain dish requires 1 1/2cups of pasta, according to this reciepe, what us the number of cups of pasta that Malik will use the next time he prepares the dish?
(1) The next time he prepares the dish, Malik will make half as many servings as he did the last time he prepared the dish.
(2) Malik used 6 cups of pasta the last time he prepared the dish.

My Logic:
From (1) then next time pasta cups = (current serving/ 2)* (pasta/ serving) = 2/2 * 3/2 * 1/2 = 3/4
From (2) not sure of the servings, hence not sufficient by itself.
Hence A

OA Correct - C

polter wrote:Hi Anurag,

Thanks for your response.
But, "for 2 servings of a certain dish requires 1 1/2cups of pasta"
means that 2 servings requires 3/2 cups of pasta, doesn't it?

I am not getting this still.
Appreciate your thoughts/ clarifications.

-Polter

djiddish98 wrote:This question almost seems like it belongs in the verbal, since getting the answer requires reading the question correctly and not making assumptions.

The recipe is 2 servings requires 3/2 cups of pasta, which is just a proportion.

However, he could have made 100 servings or just 2. As Anurag pointed out, it doesn't mention how many servings he just made.

polter wrote:Got it this time.

Bottom-line: if something is needed does not necessarily imply that it was provided.

Thanks a lot for your patience, Anurag.