Guests at a recent party ate a total of fifteen hamburgers. Each guest who was neither a student nor a vegetarian ate exactly one hamburger. No hamburger was eaten by any guest who was a student, a vegetarian, or both. If half of the guests were vegetarians, how many guests attended the party?
(1) The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
(2) 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
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Who ate the burgers??
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This means that the ratio of vegetarian students to non-students was 2 : 3 and the ratio of non-vegetarian students to non-students was 1 : 3.
You can think of a ratio like a fraction. If you want to half the fraction, you would either cut the numerator in half or double the denominator.
You can think of a ratio like a fraction. If you want to half the fraction, you would either cut the numerator in half or double the denominator.
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I received a PM asking me to comment.AIM TO CRACK GMAT wrote:Guests at a recent party ate a total of fifteen hamburgers. Each guest who was neither a student nor a vegetarian ate exactly one hamburger. No hamburger was eaten by any guest who was a student, a vegetarian, or both. If half of the guests were vegetarians, how many guests attended the party?
(1) The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
(2) 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
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This is an EITHER/OR group question.
Everyone is EITHER a vegetarian OR not.
Everyone is EITHER a student OR not.
Use a GROUP GRID (also known as a matrix) to organize the data.
In the grid below, V = vegetarians, NV = non-vegetarians, S = students, NS = non-students:
Every row in the grid has to add up to the total, as does every column.
Looking at the top row, student vegetarians + student non-vegetarians = total students.
Looking at the left-most column, student vegetarians + non-student vegetarians = total vegetarians.
Now let's fill in the data step by step.
Let T = total.
Since half of the guests are vegetarians, V = (1/2)T, NV = (1/2)T.
Since the 15 hamburgers were eaten by the non-student NVs, 15 goes in the center box:
Statement 1: The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
For VEGETARIANS, students : non-students = 2:3.
The rate for non-vegetarians was TWICE the rate for vegetarians.
Thus, for NON-VEGETARIANS, we get:
(NV students) : (NV non-students) = 2 * (2:3) = 4:3.
Thus, of every 7 NVs, 4 were students and 3 were non-students, implying that 3/7 of the NVs were non-students.
Plugging this information into the grid, we get:
Since in the center box we have (3/7)(1/2)T = 15, we can solve for T.
SUFFICIENT.
Statement 2: 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
No way to determine what fraction of the NVs were non-students.
INSUFFICIENT.
The correct answer is A.
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GMATGuruNY wrote:I received a PM asking me to comment.AIM TO CRACK GMAT wrote:Guests at a recent party ate a total of fifteen hamburgers. Each guest who was neither a student nor a vegetarian ate exactly one hamburger. No hamburger was eaten by any guest who was a student, a vegetarian, or both. If half of the guests were vegetarians, how many guests attended the party?
(1) The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
(2) 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
[spoiler]OA=A[/spoiler]
This is an EITHER/OR group question.
Everyone is EITHER a vegetarian OR not.
Everyone is EITHER a student OR not.
Use a GROUP GRID (also known as a matrix) to organize the data.
In the grid below, V = vegetarians, NV = non-vegetarians, S = students, NS = non-students:
Every row in the grid has to add up to the total, as does every column.
Looking at the top row, student vegetarians + student non-vegetarians = total students.
Looking at the left-most column, student vegetarians + non-student vegetarians = total vegetarians.
Now let's fill in the data step by step.
Let T = total.
Since half of the guests are vegetarians, V = (1/2)T, NV = (1/2)T.
Since the 15 hamburgers were eaten by the non-student NVs, 15 goes in the center box:
Statement 1: The vegetarians attended the party at a rate of 2 students to every 3 non-students, half the rate for non-vegetarians.
For VEGETARIANS, students : non-students = 2:3.
The rate for non-vegetarians was TWICE the rate for vegetarians.
Thus, for NON-VEGETARIANS, we get:
(NV students) : (NV non-students) = 2 * (2:3) = 4:3.
Thus, of every 7 NVs, 4 were students and 3 were non-students, implying that 3/7 of the NVs were non-students.
Plugging this information into the grid, we get:
Since in the center box we have (3/7)(1/2)T = 15, we can solve for T.
SUFFICIENT.
Statement 2: 30% of the guests were vegetarian non-students.
No way to determine what fraction of the NVs were non-students.
INSUFFICIENT.
The correct answer is A.
I undastud d whole xplaination very well!!! thank u soo much!! wat i din get is y the NV non students remain unchanged and did not double???!! thank u soo much