lheiannie07 wrote:An estate of $216,000 is divided equally among p people who must each pay the lawyer d percent of their share. What is the value of d?
(1) p = 4
(2) The lawyer will receive $270 from each of the p people.
Isn't statement one sufficient?
OA C
Statement 1: This tells us that each recipient will get $216,000/4, or $54,000. But it doesn't tell us what percent of that $54,000, they'll then have to give to the lawyer.
Statement 2: If we don't know how many recipients there are, we can't determine what percent each is giving to the lawyer. If there's one recipient, she'll received the entire 216,000, and if she gives d% to the lawyer, we can find d by solving 270/216,000. But if there were four recipients, each would receive 54,000, and we'd find do by solving 270/54,000, clearly a different percentage than 270/216,000. Not sufficient.
Together: We know each recipient gets 54,000, and each will pay 270 to the lawyer, meaning each will pay 270/54,000 = .5% = d. Together the statements are sufficient. The answer is
C
