Q NO 266 OFFICIAL GUIDE 2017

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IN THE QUESTION(ATTACHED HEREWITH), I THINK THE ANSWER SHOULD BE E. THEY HAVE SEEMED TO HAVE OVERLOOKED THE POSSIBILITY OF "ZERO" WHICH ALSO SATISFIES BOTH THE STATEMENTS 1 & 2 AND ZERO IS NOT EVEN. HENCE BOTH STATEMENTS ARE INSUFFICIENT.
PLEASE CLARIFY

[DavidG@VeritasPrep]

IN THE QUESTION(ATTACHED HEREWITH), I THINK THE ANSWER SHOULD BE E. THEY HAVE SEEMED TO HAVE OVERLOOKED THE POSSIBILITY OF "ZERO" WHICH ALSO SATISFIES BOTH THE STATEMENTS 1 & 2 AND ZERO IS NOT EVEN. HENCE BOTH STATEMENTS ARE INSUFFICIENT.
PLEASE CLARIFY

Though zero is neither positive nor negative, zero is even - important number property to file away!

[DavidG@VeritasPrep]

IN THE QUESTION(ATTACHED HEREWITH), I THINK THE ANSWER SHOULD BE E. THEY HAVE SEEMED TO HAVE OVERLOOKED THE POSSIBILITY OF "ZERO" WHICH ALSO SATISFIES BOTH THE STATEMENTS 1 & 2 AND ZERO IS NOT EVEN. HENCE BOTH STATEMENTS ARE INSUFFICIENT.
PLEASE CLARIFY

And if you're curious, you can think of the definition of an even number as any 'n' that satisfies n = 2k, where k is an integer. If k = 0, then n = 0, and thus 0 is even.

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Hi googly76,

Another way to think of all of this is to consider a Number Line. The integers on a Number Line always alternate... odd, even, odd, even, etc.

For example:
-3 = odd
-2 = even
-1 = odd
0 = even
1 = odd
2 = even
Etc.

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