A = O + 0.1

What is the total revenue from the sale of oranges?

We need number of oranges sold and cost per orange.


1. No. of oranges (say y ) is 5 more than number of apples (say x) => y = x + 5
We can't get a clear value of y nor can we get the cost per orange.
INSUFFICIENT

2. This means A*x = 15
=> (O + 0.1)*x = 15. We cannot find O or y.
INSUFFICIENT


Both 1. and 2.

We have (O + 0.1)*x = 15, and x = y - 5
Substituting (O + 0.1) *(y -5) = 15
=> Oy -5O + 0.1y - 0.5 = 15
=> Oy -5O + 0.1y = 15.5

We cannot isolate Oy or find individual values for O and y. INSUFFICIENT

Pick E. I think OA C is wrong. Waiting for further explanations!

IMO E

the answer is correct as C.

please see the explanation below.

let number of oranges be n
and price of each orange = x

total revenue from sale of oranges = nx

let number of apples be m
and price of each apple = x+0.10x

total revenue from apples = m(1.1x) = 1.1mx

First statement is insufficient.

second is insufficient as well

combine the two statements

1)-> n=5m (relation from statement 1)
2)-> 15 = 1.1mx

substitute value of m from statement 1 to 2
150/11 = (n/5)x

750/11 =nx
nx is the required thing.

(1) The number of oranges sold at the fruit stand yesterday was 5 more than the number of apples.

This would mean n= m + 5; not n = 5m

So if you substitute this in 15 = 1.1mx = 1.1*(n-5)*x = 1.1nx - 5.5x

You can see that it would be insufficient.

If it had said "5 times more" then your interpretation would be correct, but "5 more" is just "m + 5" imo.

yes..5 more than is different from 5 times more than.

According to stmt1,the equation is

O=A+5

taneja.niks,

you need to careful in this sort of word problems.

i also get E as am answer

yes guys u r right I read the thing wrong.

Guys we should appreciate Taneja Niks that atleast she has tried . She gave a beautiful explanation but she missed one chance i.e. instead of n= 5+m she had taken n=5m. So is fine we all are humans and such things happen.

Thanks Taneja. I am still trying to make answer C bcz it is correct. Hope u guys too are making more attemppts. Keep on trying guys.

Thanks all of you for atleast taking my problem.

selango wrote:yes..5 more than is different from 5 times more than.

According to stmt1,the equation is

O=A+5

taneja.niks,

you need to careful in this sort of word problems.

pardeep_10sharma wrote:Guys we should appreciate Taneja Niks that atleast she has tried . She gave a beautiful explanation but she missed one chance i.e. instead of n= 5+m she had taken n=5m. So is fine we all are humans and such things happen.

Thanks Taneja. I am still trying to make answer C bcz it is correct. Hope u guys too are making more attemppts. Keep on trying guys.

Thanks all of you for atleast taking my problem.

selango wrote:yes..5 more than is different from 5 times more than.

According to stmt1,the equation is

O=A+5

taneja.niks,

you need to careful in this sort of word problems.

Pardeep,

I agree, I think the explanation was great, and in fact it leads me to believe that perhaps the question intended to say 5 times more. Perhaps there was a typo in the source.

For the question as it stands, I don't see how you could come up with a unique value. A couple of other forums I trolled seem to have arrived at E as well, and have concluded that there may be a mistake in the OA or question.

If there's no OE, I wouldn't bother with this - probably an unreliable source? Let us know if you find out.

Thanks for sharing!