GMAT Question of the Day : Critical Reasoning

V Pat
#1. November 17th, 2006, at 2:12 AM.

C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

Nrip Nihalani
#2. November 17th, 2006, at 8:04 PM.

C

bluesclues9
#3. November 17th, 2006, at 10:17 PM.

C

GOPI
#4. November 20th, 2006, at 9:24 PM.

C

prakashchandra
#5. January 29th, 2007, at 8:14 AM.

C

Renegade
#6. January 29th, 2007, at 10:22 AM.

C.BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

PrT
#7. January 29th, 2007, at 6:30 PM.

C

Valmik Desai
#8. January 29th, 2007, at 7:35 PM.

c

Jaimin
#9. January 29th, 2007, at 9:46 PM.

Its C…..

akanksha
#10. March 19th, 2007, at 5:06 PM.

“C” is the correct option….

saraswathi
#11. March 21st, 2007, at 12:04 PM.

C

shyam
#12. April 8th, 2007, at 7:45 PM.

C

AP
#13. April 13th, 2007, at 8:41 PM.

C

sachin
#14. March 24th, 2008, at 7:59 AM.

c

Reetu Singh
#15. March 24th, 2008, at 11:34 AM.

C

Aviral
#16. March 25th, 2008, at 11:58 AM.

c

Chinu
#17. March 28th, 2008, at 10:46 PM.

Why NOT B
Lets say for x Rs : y Books are sold
Then 1.25x Rs : .9y books wil be sold

In this we didn’t used Statement 1

Pushpa
#18. August 27th, 2008, at 10:07 AM.

Hi Chinu,

but with B alone we cant find out % decrease of magazine sale when the price is doubled.

I think it should be C.

deepak
#19. August 27th, 2008, at 12:22 PM.

I tink the ans is C

Laura
#20. August 27th, 2008, at 9:44 PM.

C

jaspreet
#21. August 27th, 2008, at 9:49 PM.

C

kapil
#22. August 27th, 2008, at 11:31 PM.

C

shilpa
#23. August 28th, 2008, at 12:28 AM.

C

ashwin04
#24. August 28th, 2008, at 11:19 AM.

The answer is B.

Since in the question percentage is been asked not actual number of magazines decrease .

Suppose X price y copies got sold
now 2x price 4y/5 nmber of copies

suppose y is 100 and then 4y/5 is 80 ie 20 % decrease right .

there fore (100-80 )/100=20% decrease .
this doe not use A and does not even need it .

Immanuel Ashok
#25. August 28th, 2008, at 4:40 PM.

Yes the answer is B.

Statement 2 says that if the price increases by 25% the number of magazines sold will decrease by 10%.

Therefore if the price increases by 100% (i.e price is doubled) the no of magazines sold will decrease by 40%.

Therefore statement 2 alone is sufficient!

Immanuel Ashok
#26. August 28th, 2008, at 4:43 PM.

Sorry the answer is C and not B.

the price increase is not represented in %. Hence we need statement 1 as well.

indomitable18
#27. August 28th, 2008, at 8:20 PM.

can any body restate on ground zero basis

Basant
#28. August 29th, 2008, at 1:53 PM.

my ans is c

Deepak
#29. August 30th, 2008, at 12:05 PM.

C

Amar
#30. August 30th, 2008, at 12:47 PM.

C

gota hav both

Waz ur take team gmat ?

peeps
#31. August 30th, 2008, at 11:47 PM.

A,D are out, since (1) gives you no idea how the price relates to quantity demanded.

(2) is also insufficient by itself. To see this, look at the given case where the product is a dollar. then doubling we lose 40% quantity sold, since that is a 25 cent increase 4 times, where each time represents a 10 % loss in the original price. Now take it a step further. Assume the original price is now two dollars. If the price doubles, it is 4 dollars and then we lose 80% sold based on condition (2), i.e. the price goes up 8 quarters’ (.25) worth and each .25 increase still creates 10 % loss each time. So since 40 % does not equal 80 %, statement (2) is not sufficient and must be accompanied by statement (1) Thus the answer is C

utkarsh
#32. September 12th, 2008, at 3:10 PM.

c

Kuldeep Sharma
#33. November 12th, 2008, at 12:19 AM.

c