An animal shelter began the day Tuesday with a ratio of 5

This topic has expert replies
Moderator
Posts: 7187
Joined: Thu Sep 07, 2017 4:43 pm
Followed by:23 members

Timer

00:00

Your Answer

A

B

C

D

E

Global Stats

An animal shelter began the day Tuesday with a ratio of 5 cats for every 11 dogs. If no new animals arrived at the shelter, and the only animals that left the shelter were those that were adopted, what was the ratio of cats to dogs at the end of the day Tuesday?

(1) No cats were adopted on Tuesday.

(2) 4 dogs were adopted on Tuesday.

OA E

Source: Veritas Prep
Source: — Data Sufficiency |

Legendary Member
Posts: 2499
Joined: Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:04 pm
Followed by:6 members

by swerve » Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:39 pm

Timer

00:00

Your Answer

A

B

C

D

E

Global Stats

1) we don't know how many dogs have been adopted.
not sufficient.

2) we don't know how many cats have been adopted
not sufficient.

1+2) 5x/11x-4 is the ratio; we still don't know what's the value of x. Not sufficient.

Therefore, the correct answer is __E__.