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1Data Sufficiency Problem Video Transcript
Introduction to Data Sufficiency
Hey guys! Today we’re looking at the Science Fair Problem. In this Data Sufficiency, we’re being asked how many, discrete number, of the 900 students at the school attended all three days. And we can surmise that they’re going to come at us by giving us different breakdowns of how different groups of students behaved and so most likely we’re going to need more than one piece of information to come together in order to give us the precise amount. The only way, typically, that we would have a single piece of information be sufficient is if they gave us the inverse and told us how many, or what percentage, or what fraction of students didn’t attend on all three days. Where we could then compute the opposite.
Statement 1
Let’s take a look: Number 1 is telling us that 30% or 270 of the students attended two or more days. If we break this up into a chart, we see this block that’s undefined but we know that 270 attended either two days or three days. Some mix of them, but we don’t know that mix. Therefore, this doesn’t give us what we need from the box and it’s insufficient. However, we could use it possibly with other information that distinguishes between the two day visitors and the three day visitors.
Statement 2
Number 2 gives us relative information based upon some other number: 10% of those that attended at least one day. That means of all those that attended at all, for one day, for two days, for three days, 10% of those belong in the three-day box. However, we don’t know how many students that is. So 2 is insufficient. When we try and combine them notice that the information from 2 slices and dices a piece of information that 1 doesn’t give us. There’s no way to reconcile the 10% from that big group into the group that just attended two days or three days. Therefore, we don’t have enough information.
Answer
The answer choice is E: both together are still insufficient. Hope this helped. Guys thanks for watching! For other examples of DS problems where you can make charts to fill in the blanks and find the square you need check out the links below and we’ll see you again soon.
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