Challenging question...Time Sucker
However I reached at correct choice.....C
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Its definitely C
let consider just 2 trees. so both of them will have 1 leaf each, for 3 trees all three may have 1 or 2 leaves OR one will have 1 leaf and other two will have 2 leaves and vice versa
Didn't took much time to solve this one...
let consider just 2 trees. so both of them will have 1 leaf each, for 3 trees all three may have 1 or 2 leaves OR one will have 1 leaf and other two will have 2 leaves and vice versa
Didn't took much time to solve this one...
Best to solve by picking numbers ... say # of trees is 100, max number of leaves on a tree is 99. At least two trees have to have the same number of leaves. Answer C.
Instead of looking too much into the language and options, picking of numbers made it easy. Pick two trees and the only options that fit for this no. is C.
Hence, IMO C
Hence, IMO C
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This question is just hard to comprehend, thanks for explanation,however, i would never have guessed that you can use numbers here.
I believe that the answer is C.
we need to rephrase the passage with math word.
number of leave: n
(1) n > number of leaves on any tree
(2) each tree has at least 1 leave
we assume that each trees has different number of leaves.
trees 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th .........(n-1)th nth
leave 1 2 3 4 5 6 n-1 (Cannot be n)
the number of leaves for the nth tree cannot be nth because of stmt (1)
we need to rephrase the passage with math word.
number of leave: n
(1) n > number of leaves on any tree
(2) each tree has at least 1 leave
we assume that each trees has different number of leaves.
trees 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th .........(n-1)th nth
leave 1 2 3 4 5 6 n-1 (Cannot be n)
the number of leaves for the nth tree cannot be nth because of stmt (1)
