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Is xy > 16?

Is xy > 16?

(1) 1 < |x| < 4
(2) y > 16

What's the best way to determine which statement is sufficient? Can any experts help?

by BTGmoderatorAT

Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:19 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Is xy > 16?
Replies: 2
Views: 730

A professor at the university has taken a sabbatical to rese

A professor at the university has taken a sabbatical to research on James Baldwin's books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living there. A) on James Baldwin's books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living there B) about the books James Baldwin wrote in France C) into James Baldwin'...


Which one of the following most logically completes the argu

Advertisers have learned that people are more easily encouraged to develop positive attitudes about things toward which they originally have neutral or even negative attitudes if those things are linked, with pictorial help rather than exclusively through prose, to things about which they already ha...


Telephone Company X's monthly charge for long-distance telep

Telephone Company X's monthly charge for long-distance telephone calls is $1.95 plus $0.10 per minute, whereas Telephone Company Y's monthly charge is $5.95 plus $0.08 per minute. For what total number of minutes of long-distance calls per month would the monthly charge for the two companies be the ...


In how many ways can a coach select a 4-person university te

In how many ways can a coach select a 4-person university team from a pool of eligible candidates? (1) The number of eligible candidates is three times as great as the number of slots on the team. (2) 60% of the 20 athletes are eligible to play on the four-person university team. What's the best way...


Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study

Many teenagers undergo stress, but results of a recent study indicate that the patterns of stress that girls experience are more likely to result in depression than are those that boys experience. A are those that boys experience B what boys experience C boys’ experience would D boys’ stress pat...


A newly discovered painting on wooden panel by Michelangelo

A newly discovered painting on wooden panel by Michelangelo must have been completed after 1507 but before 1509. It cannot have been painted earlier than 1507 because one of its central figures carries a coin that was not minted until that year. It cannot have been painted after 1509 because it cont...


A worker carries jugs of liquid soap from a production line

A worker carries jugs of liquid soap from a production line to a packing area, carrying 4 jugs per trip. If the jugs are packed into cartons that hold 7 jugs each, how many jugs are needed to fill the last partially filled carton after the worker has made 17 trips? A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 5 E. 6 I'm confu...

by BTGmoderatorAT

Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:12 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: A worker carries jugs of liquid soap from a production line
Replies: 4
Views: 1504

If P is a set of integers and 3 is in P, is every positive m

If P is a set of integers and 3 is in P, is every positive multiple of 3 in P?

(1) For any integer in P, the sum of 3 and that integer is also in P.
(2) For any integer in P, that integer minus 3 is also in P.

What's the best way to determine which statement is sufficient? Can any experts show?


Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves. (A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves (B) fund, the i...


Driving under the influence is a more severe problem among c

Driving under the influence is a more severe problem among college students at rural and suburban universities than at urban universities. Social scientists wanted to determine how much of the problem is due to the distance students must drive to obtain alcohol. They looked at police records for inc...


If A, B, C, and D are integers such that A - C + B is even a

If A, B, C, and D are integers such that A - C + B is even and D + B - A is odd, which of the following expressions is always odd?

A. A + D
B. B + D
C. C + D
D. A + B
E. A + C

I'm confused how to set up the formulas here. Can any experts help?


Is x divisible by 3?

Is x divisible by 3?

(1) x + y is divisible by 3.
(2) x - y is divisible by 3.

What's the best way to determine which statement is sufficient? Can any experts help?

by BTGmoderatorAT

Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:16 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Is x divisible by 3?
Replies: 3
Views: 1207

After more than four decades of research and development, a

After more than four decades of research and development, a new type of jet engine is being tested that could eventually propel aircraft anywhere in the world within two hours or help boost cargoes into space at significantly lower costs than current methods permit. (A) tested that could eventually ...


A neuron needs to travel to a particular place in the brain

A neuron needs to travel to a particular place in the brain to do its work. Not all neurons are successful in their journey. Scientists think that only a third reach their destination. Some cells die during the process of neuronal development. Some neurons survive the trip, but end up where they sho...