Gmat Data Sufficiency section !

arianap · #1 May 2, 2007, 07:44 PM

GMAT DATA SUFFICIENCY QUESTION:

A company bought desks of $150 and chairs of $50. Can it buy 40 desks?
a) The total cost of the purchases was $500
b) It bought fewer than 20 chairs.

Ariana / Dallas

asterisk_man · May 3, 2007, 05:58 AM

Can it buy 40 desks? No.
The budget is $500 but to buy 40 desks would require $6000.

I think the answer you're looking for is that answer A alone is sufficient to determine the answer. B doesn't help. If the budget is less than $6000 then we don't need any additional info to know that they can't buy 40 desks.



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