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This question isn't up to GMAT standards.ygdrasil24 wrote:A certain number when successively divided by 8 and 11 leaves remainders of 3 and 7 respectively. What will be remainder when the number is divided by the product of 8 and 11, viz 88?
A. 3
B. 21
C. 59
D. 68
Source is GmatClub, I too got confused there, some expert had replied to the problem assuming number of the form 51K ,Brent@GMATPrepNow wrote:This question isn't up to GMAT standards.ygdrasil24 wrote:A certain number when successively divided by 8 and 11 leaves remainders of 3 and 7 respectively. What will be remainder when the number is divided by the product of 8 and 11, viz 88?
A. 3
B. 21
C. 59
D. 68
What does it mean to successively divide by 8 and 11?
For example, if we begin with 51 and divide by 8 we get 6 with remainder 3.
Now what? Do we take the 6 and divide by 11, or do we somehow include the remainder?
After all, 51 divided by 8 does not equal 6. So, we really should include the remainder of 3 somewhere when we divide by 11.
Since it's unclear what we're supposed to do here, I think the question should be reworded to clearly express its message.
What's the source of this question?
Cheers,
Brent
