Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15

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by Gurpreet singh » Fri May 27, 2016 6:27 pm
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when i make the double matrix table for this question "not x and not y" does not add up assuming total 100 students.

Brent@GMATPrepNow wrote:Incidentally, if anyone is wondering what the diagrams in mevicks' and theCodeToGMAT's solutions mean, they are using a technique known as the Double Matrix Method. This technique can be used for most questions featuring a population in which each member has two characteristics associated with it.
Here, we have a population of applicants, and the two characteristics are:
- applied to college X or didn't apply to college X
- applied to college Y or didn't apply to college Y

To learn more about this technique, watch our free video: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat- ... ems?id=919

Then try these additional practice questions that can be solved using the Double Matrix Method:
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/05/ ... question-1
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/05/ ... question-2
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/05/ ... question-3
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/ds-quest-t187706.html
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/overlapping- ... 83320.html
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/finance-majo ... 67425.html
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/ds-french-ja ... 22297.html
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/sets-t269449.html#692540
- https://www.beatthegmat.com/in-costume-f ... tml#692116

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by MartyMurray » Fri May 27, 2016 9:35 pm
Gurpreet singh wrote:Help me
when i make the double matrix table for this question "not x and not y" does not add up assuming total 100 students.
If I understand correctly what you are saying, the flaw in your method is that you can't assume a number of students. Given what is said in the question, the number of students is constrained to a particular value.
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