All of u who are disappointed at finding out that sanju09 party is 10 years hence
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can gatecrash into Michelle's party
I was invited to my neighbour Michelle's birthday party, and when I asked how old she now was, she told me this:
A ) When I was one year older than half my husband Peter's age now, he was as old as I was when he was as old as I am now.
B ) When I was three-quarters as old as Peter is, he was as old as I will be when he is 13 years older than I am now.
What are Michelle's and Peter's ages now?
With such a reply, I think she is broadly hinting that we make ourselves scarce.
[spoiler]Caution : on a serious note , though the Q fits well into a DS pattern Q
I don't think you will face a Q like this on actual GMAT. Small mercies. The language is not GMATesque, but the concepts being tested are basic. Judge for yourself.[/spoiler]
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If m and p are Michelle's and Peter's ages now, respectively, thenkstv wrote:All of u who are disappointed at finding out that sanju09 party is 10 years hence
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can gatecrash into Michelle's party
I was invited to my neighbour Michelle's birthday party, and when I asked how old she now was, she told me this:
A ) When I was one year older than half my husband Peter's age now, he was as old as I was when he was as old as I am now.
B ) When I was three-quarters as old as Peter is, he was as old as I will be when he is 13 years older than I am now.
What are Michelle's and Peter's ages now?
With such a reply, I think she is broadly hinting that we make ourselves scarce.
[spoiler]Caution : on a serious note , though the Q fits well into a DS pattern Q
I don't think you will face a Q like this on actual GMAT. Small mercies. The language is not GMATesque, but the concepts being tested are basic. Judge for yourself.[/spoiler]
(A) This info is making us write
m > ½ p + 1, as it reads "When I was",
and also, this makes us take the hint that she is talking about m - (½ p + 1) years back from now. As we read between the lines, we can deduce that m < p, and the later section of the statement is surely talking about p - m years back from now. So we can further write
p - {m - (½ p + 1)} = m - (p - m)
or 3 p - 6 m = 2. Insufficient
(B) In this statement, in the beginning she's talking about m - ¾ p years back from now. Peter will become 13 years older than Michelle now is, in another 13 - (p - m) years hence, Hence, the later section of the statement is surely talking about 13 - (p - m) years hence. So we can further write
p - (m - ¾ p) = m + 13 - (p - m)
or 11 p - 12 m = 52. Insufficient
Taken together, now it can be answered.
[spoiler]How was the party like?[/spoiler]
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