Whenever you encounter a quantitative question with answer choices, be sure to SCAN the answer choices before performing any calculations. In many cases, the answer choices provide important clues regarding how to best solve the question.
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Comment on c is What Percent of b?
Loving your lessons, but I've
I'm confused because I don't think this "when you can do it" was addressed (my mistake if it was) but the one time I tried to apply it – herehttps://www.greenlighttestprep.com/module/gre-arithmetic/video/1073 – by multiplying both by X, that was apparently wrong.
Confused as to when and why and how you can just multiply by chosen numbers (and when not).
Good question. When dealing
Good question. When dealing with EQUATIONS, you can multiply both sides of the equation by a variable as long as you are certain that the variable does not equal zero.
The question that you reference (https://www.greenlighttestprep.com/module/gre-arithmetic/video/1073) is a much different question because it is a Quantitative Comparison question, in which we do not have an equation. Instead we are comparing the values of two quantities.
In Quantitative Comparison questions, we must be very careful when multiplying both quantities by a variable. When doing so, we must be certain that the variable is POSITIVE. More here: https://www.greenlighttestprep.com/module/gre-quantitative-comparison/vi...
Thank you, I'm a lot clearer
So I just plugged in the
Perfect!!!
Perfect!!!
I do it like this:
If c is 100, b is 125.
100 is 80% of 125.
therefore, c is 80% of b
Your "testing values"
Your "testing values" approach is perfect!
Thanks!
1.25 converting it to a
Glad to help!
Glad to help!
1.25 = 1 + 1/4
= 4/4 + 1/4
= 5/4
Cheers,
Brent
I came up with an faster
I don't know if it can be applied in other situations as well but it did over here.
Since it is given that
b/c=1.25 which can be written as 1.25/1
So b=1.25 and c=1
We can further solve or guess the right answer as We can now see that c is clearly more than 50% and the only option in the choice more than 50% is option E. Hence the answer is E.
Please let me know if this process is right and can be used in similar cases where some variable fraction is = some fraction.
Very nice!!!
Very nice!!!
is there any way to solve
You bet.
You bet.
If b/c = 1.25, there are infinitely many pairs of values that satisfy this.
For example,
5/4 = 1.25
125/100 = 1.25
25/20 = 1.25
1250/1000 = 1.25
etc
Let's choose b = 25 and c = 20 (although any pair above we'll also work)
So our question becomes: 20 is what percent of 25?
In other words: 20/25 = p/100
Does that help?
Yes, thank you
question: when you flipped c
You're referring to what
You're referring to what happens at 1:15 in the above video, where I say that, since b/c = 5/4, we also know that c/b = 4/5
In general, we can say: If x/y = a/b, then y/x = b/a
Please note that the above property does not work if x = 0 or y = 0.
So, for example, if w/z = 7/2, then it is also true that z/w = 2/7
Hey, i ended up doing it like
since B/C is greater than 1 i.e 1.25.
Then, B = 125, C = 100. subsequently, C/B i.e. 100/125=0.8
I'm not familiar with the second approach of the previous hence, i went down this route. Is this the right approach to carry forward?
Your solution is exactly how
Your solution is exactly how I would do it on test day.
In fact, once I have the values b = 125 and c = 100, I know that c is more than 50% of b, which means the correct answer must be greater than 50%, leaving us with only answer choice E.
Ah, that's a good idea to