Is x greater than x squared?

[frizo]

Is x greater than x squared?
(1) x < 1
(2) x is positive

[yalanand]

Answer is (C)

Condition 1)

X<1 so x can be 0.2, 0.5, or -2

hence x may or may not be greater than x^2

Condition 2)

X is positive by itself will not help because x can be less than or greater than 1..

Combining both of them we can definitely say X is greater than X^2.