Non zero digits

[manik11]

Does the decimal expression of the fraction X/8 have more than 4 non-zero digits?

1. X is a digit
2. X<10

OA :A

I figured 1/8 is 0.125 and rephrased the question to "0.125X more than 4 non-zero digits?"
Multiplied couple of numbers to 0.125 but didn't got more than 3 non zero digits. Chose D.
Experts...Could you please tell me whether my approach was correct? And more importantly where did I go wrong?

[DavidG@VeritasPrep]

Does the decimal expression of the fraction X/8 have more than 4 non-zero digits?

1. X is a digit
2. X<10

OA :A

I figured 1/8 is 0.125 and rephrased the question to "0.125X more than 4 non-zero digits?"
Multiplied couple of numbers to 0.125 but didn't got more than 3 non zero digits. Chose D.
Experts...Could you please tell me whether my approach was correct? And more importantly where did I go wrong?

The rephrase is certainly valid. 1/8 = .125, so clearly x/8 = x*(.125)
Your problem was assuming that x was an integer. Statement 2 only tells us that x is less than 10, so x could be some horrible decimal that would give us more than 4 non-zero digits in x/8.

[Matt@VeritasPrep]

Assuming that x is positive, an integer, rational, etc. is one of the testwriters' favorite tricks, so don't sweat it: if you miss this a few times in practice, it makes you that much more annoyed by it and thus more likely to remember it on test day!