OFFICIAL EXPLANATION


We know that the number of coins collected by Tom, John, Harry \& David were in the respective ratio of $\(2: 3: 4: 5\)$, so let the number of their coins be $\(2 \mathrm{k}, 3 \mathrm{k}, 4 \mathrm{k}\)$ and 5 k respectively, where k is any positive integer.

So, the total number of coins with all 4 friends is $\(2 k+3 k+4 k+5 k=14 k\)$

As one of them has a total of 60 coins, that person can be any one of the 4 persons. Considering all possibilities we get



Hence out of the given only 500 cannot be the total number of coins, so the answer is (E).