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Are x and y both positive?

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Source: — Data Sufficiency |

by wawatan » Sat May 24, 2008 7:00 pm
is the answer E?
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by aatech » Sat May 24, 2008 7:03 pm
wawatan wrote:is the answer E?
nope
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by netigen » Sat May 24, 2008 10:08 pm
(A) 2X-2Y = 1
X-Y = 1/2
X=Y+1/2
This means X>Y

(b) X/Y>1
means both x and y are +ve or both x and y are -ve
X>Y if y>0 and x>0
X<Y if y<0 and x<0

from both A and B we know that Y>0 and X>0

Hence the answer should be C
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by aatech » Sun May 25, 2008 5:58 pm
Yeah its C
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