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by parallel_chase » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:14 am
AleksandrM wrote:Image
The answer to the question is C.

Explanation:

Statement I => if Rasheed bought x packages of toffee he would have bought x-1 packages of chocolate. NOT SUFFICIENT.

Statement II => Handed out same number of Toffee bars as Chocolate bars. 2/3C=3/5T . NOT SUFFICIENT.


Combining I & II => 2/3(x-1) = 3/5x => x (Toffee) = 10 and
x-1 (Chocolate) = 9


Hence C.

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by AleksandrM » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:40 am
It is C.

I misread the first statement, which gave me a negative on one side of my equation, whereas it should have given me a positive. Thanks, though.
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