GMAT Quantitative Reasoning Practice Test 7

Question : 83 of 100

Marks: +1, -0

As the new basketball season reopened, 40 players received either a yellow ball or a red ball as a present. How many basketball players received the yellow ball as a present?
(1) 16 players received the red ball.
(2)

50 \%

more players received the yellow ball than players who received the red ball.

Statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) by itself is not.
Statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) by itself is not.
Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, even though NEITHER statement BY ITSELF is sufficient.
Either statement BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question.
Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question, requiring more data pertaining to the problem.

Validate

Solution:

Statement (1) is sufficient since it gives us the number of players who received red balls.
The number of players who received yellow balls is

40-16=24

. Statement (2) is sufficient, Define

X

as the number of players that received a red ball.

x+3 x \/ 2=40

X=16

and so

40-16=24

is the number of players who received a yellow ball.

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