Carcass wrote:
A certain collector sold 58 of her paintings, including 23 of her impressionist paintings. If 35 of her paintings were impressionist, what fraction of the paintings that were NOT SOLD were impressionist?
A. 14
B. 38
C. 25
D. 815
E. 58
For easy calculation let's take the total no. of painting = 120
Now Total painting sold =
58∗120=75Therefore number of paintings not sold =
120−75=45Total number of impressionist painting =
35∗120=72Number of impressionist paintings sold =
23∗72=48Therefore number of impressionist paintings not sold =
72−48=24Therefore, the fraction of paintings that were not sold were impressionist =
2445=815