kiennguyen wrote:imo D. OA pls

Testluv wrote:

kiennguyen wrote:imo D. OA pls

Hi kiennguyen,

Actually, choice D is mathematically impossible. This is because the range for moderate rain is something just over 1 cm up to 2 cm.

To test it, let's maximize rain per moderately rain in 1990 at 2 inches, and minimize rain per moderately rainy day in 1910 at 1.00000.....1 inch.

So if you had an equal number of moderately rainy days in both years, then the ratio of 1990 mod rain/1910 mod rain would be: 2/1.0000.....1. This already makes it mathematically impossible.

But of course, there were fewer moderately rainy days in 1990, which means there were more in 1910, so our ratio would really look like: 2/(1.00000...1+).

Which means it is mathematically impossible for the amount of rain that fell on moderately rainy days in 1990 to have been more than twice as great as the amount of rain that fell on moderately rainy days in 1910.

gettingready wrote:Hello crackgmat007,

Thank you for your very detailed explanation. I was going for D. Although, I perfectly understood your explanation of why D is not correct, to me choice A still does not make sense.Could you possible deepen the explanation of why A is correct? Or is it more of " the best choice" out of the worst?
Thanks

Testluv wrote:

kiennguyen wrote:imo D. OA pls

Hi kiennguyen,

Actually, choice D is mathematically impossible. This is because the range for moderate rain is something just over 1 inch up to 2 inches.

To test it, let's maximize rain per moderately rain in 1990 at 2 inches, and minimize rain per moderately rainy day in 1910 at 1.00000.....1 inch.

So if you had an equal number of moderately rainy days in both years, then the ratio of 1990 mod rain/1910 mod rain would be: 2/1.0000.....1. This already makes it mathematically impossible.

But of course, there were fewer moderately rainy days in 1990, which means there were more in 1910, so our ratio would really look like: 2/(1.00000...1+).

Which means it is mathematically impossible for the amount of rain that fell on moderately rainy days in 1990 to have been more than twice as great as the amount of rain that fell on moderately rainy days in 1910.[/quot


Testluv, is this a LSAT type question ?


Thanks,

Testluv, is this a LSAT type question ?