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by pareekbharat86 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:08 am
DanaJ wrote:Source: Beat The GMAT Practice Questions

If there are more oak trees in Oregon than there are leaves on any one Oregon oak tree, and if every Oregon oak tree has at least one leaf, then __________.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

A. the average number of oak leaves per Oregon oak tree must be less than half the number of Oregon oak trees
B. there are fewer leaves on at least one Oregon oak tree than half the number of those trees
C. there must be at least two oak trees in Oregon with the same number of leaves
D. there must be at least as many Oregon oak trees with half as many leaves as the Oregon tree with the most leaves, as there are Oregon oak trees with twice as many leaves as the Oregon oak tree with the fewest leaves
E. there must be more oak trees than any other type of tree in Oregon
I would be very pleased on test day if I encountered such a ques...surely I must be doing something right during the test to invite such a sticky question :D
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by jack0997 » Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:40 am
Nice question. Are these analytical reasoning type questions asked in GMAT CR?
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by khushboogandhi12 » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:44 am
My answer: C
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by khushboogandhi12 » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:47 am
My answer: C
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by khushboogandhi12 » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:48 am
My answer: C
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by abhisheksenapati » Sun May 18, 2014 11:14 pm
Has to be 'C'. It was more of a Quant question.

Given : More Oak tree than Leaves in One Oak tree.
The minimum no. of leaves = 1; Hence trees has to be more than 1; Let it be 2

Hence there are 2 trees with 1 leaf each in both.
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by ash222021 » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:25 am
DanaJ wrote:Source: Beat The GMAT Practice Questions

If there are more oak trees in Oregon than there are leaves on any one Oregon oak tree, and if every Oregon oak tree has at least one leaf, then _____A_____.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

A. the average number of oak leaves per Oregon oak tree must be less than half the number of Oregon oak trees
B. there are fewer leaves on at least one Oregon oak tree than half the number of those trees
C. there must be at least two oak trees in Oregon with the same number of leaves
D. there must be at least as many Oregon oak trees with half as many leaves as the Oregon tree with the most leaves, as there are Oregon oak trees with twice as many leaves as the Oregon oak tree with the fewest leaves
E. there must be more oak trees than any other type of tree in Oregon
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by vinitkhicha » Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:27 am
Really a very fyn ques and it is in itself one of its kind !! :) keep posting more like these ...
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by jaspreetsra » Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:30 pm
I think that the Best option is C
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by SachetMittal » Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:10 am
IMO C
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by akash singhal » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:08 am
i think C
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by nikhilgmat31 » Thu May 28, 2015 6:01 am
'C' seems correct answer. 'D' is unnecessary confusion

If there is a Tree with max leaves as 5

number of leaves on different trees can be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5.

Now it is given that number of trees is greater number of leaves on any tree.

It means Number of trees is > max number of leaves i.e. Trees > 5 so number of trees can be 6 or more.
so now if 1 tree has 1 leaf, 2nd tree has 2 leaves .... 5th tree has 5 leaves....

now 6 tree must have any of 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 leaves. It means two trees has some number of leaves. which justifies 'C' answer.



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by 800_or_bust » Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:44 am
This is like a quant question disguised as CR. Correct answer is (C). If every tree were to have a different number of leaves, and every tree has at least one leaf, then one tree would have a number of leaves equal to the number of trees. However, this violates the condition in the passage that the number of trees must be greater than the number of leaves on any given tree. Thus, it must be the case that at least two of the trees have an equal number of leaves. None of the other answer choices are, in any way, supported by the passage.
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by deepak4mba » Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:08 am
C because the leaves are lesser than trees and every tree has atleast 1 leaf, thereby, having atleast 2 trees same number of leaves
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