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# A student can purchase a research report for $5.00, or repro  Question banks Downloads My Bookmarks Reviews Important topics Author Message TAGS: Moderator Joined: 18 Apr 2015 Posts: 5835 Followers: 93 Kudos [?]: 1141 [0], given: 5440 A student can purchase a research report for$5.00, or repro [#permalink]  17 Jun 2018, 09:45
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A student can purchase a research report for $5.00, or reproduce the x pages of the report at a cost of$0.15 per page.

 Quantity A Quantity B The greatest possible value of x if the cost of reproducing the x pages is less than the cost of purchasing the report 34

A)The quantity in Column A is greater.
B)The quantity in Column B is greater.
C)The two quantities are equal.
D)The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
[Reveal] Spoiler: OA

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Re: A student can purchase a research report for $5.00, or repro [#permalink] 19 Jun 2018, 15:50 1 This post received KUDOS Since we want to find out how many pages 5 dollars will buy us, we can just divide it by 15 cents to get quantity A. Quantity A:$$\frac{5.00}{0.15}$$ Quantity B: 34 Quantity A:$$33.3$$ Quantity B: 34 Quantity B is greater. The answer is Quantity B. *If you're a logical person like me, you chose C) the Quantities are equal. Since you can't print out .3 pieces of paper, it should still count as one whole piece of paper right? However, we shouldn't look too much into the equation, but just enough to answer the question. Be careful! Manager Joined: 27 Feb 2017 Posts: 189 Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 49 [1] , given: 15 Re: A student can purchase a research report for$5.00, or repro [#permalink]  19 Jun 2018, 23:58
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PIneappleBoy2 wrote:
Since we want to find out how many pages 5 dollars will buy us, we can just divide it by 15 cents to get quantity A.

Quantity A:$$\frac{5.00}{0.15}$$
Quantity B: 34

Quantity A:$$33.3$$
Quantity B: 34

Quantity B is greater.

*If you're a logical person like me, you chose C) the Quantities are equal. Since you can't print out .3 pieces of paper, it should still count as one whole piece of paper right? However, we shouldn't look too much into the equation, but just enough to answer the question. Be careful!

Since you cannot print out 0.3 page, you can print out only 33 pages in this case and thats why the answe is B. You need to think practically. If you were using a 'paid printer', in this case, if you put in 5 bucks, it will give out 33 pages and the remaining 5 cents will go back on your card.