Aman verma wrote:Q : At his birthday party Ethan invited his 100 friends and they took their seats numbered as 1,2,3,4......100.Starting from seat number 1 every third guest was served cookies,every fourth guest was served with pastries,and every fifth guest was served with blueberry tarts and the remaining guests were served with COCA-COLA only.How many guests enjoyed COCA-COLA in the party ?

a) 33

b) 13

c) 41

d) 51

e) 60

Now the answer is given as [spoiler]a) 33 [/spoiler] but according to my calculation it should be 40which is not given in the options.Also no explanation is provided for the above answer.Now can anybody provide an explanation how the answer can be 33.

Aman verma wrote:Thanks Ajith for the reply. Now the source of all my questions is from a GMAT coaching center ( I cannot take it's name or post it's question on the Net ; Patent & Copyright regulations) This question will not be discussed any further at that center hence I need an explanation.How could that possibly be 33 ?

Aman verma wrote:Thanks Ajith for the reply. Now the source of all my questions is from a GMAT coaching center ( I cannot take it's name or post it's question on the Net ; Patent & Copyright regulations) This question will not be discussed any further at that center hence I need an explanation.How could that possibly be 33 ?

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:

Aman verma wrote:Thanks Ajith for the reply. Now the source of all my questions is from a GMAT coaching center ( I cannot take it's name or post it's question on the Net ; Patent & Copyright regulations) This question will not be discussed any further at that center hence I need an explanation.How could that possibly be 33 ?

We've discussed this mythical coaching centre before (and unless this centre is very shady, i.e. they steal real questions or infringe copyright themselves, I really don't understand why they wouldn't want publicity; also, from a purely legal point of view, there's nothing illegal about saying a company's name in public). Here's my unofficial opinion: it sucks, get your money back if you paid them anything, never use their materials or post their questions here again!