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What is the total cost to make 7 long distance telephone calls?
1. The length of each call was at least 2 minutes.
2. The rate for long distance call is $0.32 per minute.
OA E
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Target question: What is the total cost to make 7 long distance telephone calls?AAPL wrote:Princeton Review
What is the total cost to make 7 long distance telephone calls?
1. The length of each call was at least 2 minutes.
2. The rate for long distance call is $0.32 per minute.
OA E
When we SCAN the statements, we see the key phrase: at least
This allows us to jump straight to...
Statements 1 and 2 combined
There are infinitely many scenarios that satisfy BOTH statements. Here are two:
Case a: Each call was 2 minutes long, for a total of 14 minutes. At $0.32 per minute, the answer to the target question is the total cost = $0.32 x 14
Case b: Each call was 200 minutes long, for a total of 1400 minutes. At $0.32 per minute, the answer to the target question is the total cost = $0.32 x 1400
Since we cannot answer the target question with certainty, the combined statements are NOT SUFFICIENT
Answer: E
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