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There are 87 balls in a jar. Each ball is painted with at le
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02 Apr 2019, 09:38
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There are 87 balls in a jar. Each ball is painted with at least one of two colors, red or green. It is observed that 27 of the balls that have red color also have green color, while 37 of the balls that have green color also have red color. What fraction of the balls in the jar have both red and green colors?
Bunuel did not say anything wrong about the wording of the question, so I guess it is totally fine
Conventional method: 2/7 of the balls that have red color also have green color --> {both} = x = 2/7*R; 3/7 of the balls that have green color also have red color --> {both} = x = 3/7*G.
87 = R + G - Both; 87 = 7x/2 + 7x/3 - x; x = 18; x/total = 18/87 = 6/29.
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25 Jul 2024, 04:52
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The easiest way would be to spot that the correct answer must have the denominator which is a factor of 87=3*29. Only D fits. You don't even need to solve anything.
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25 Jul 2024, 04:54
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I think what you put out of balance was the fact that usually this kind of questions in the stem report that a fraction of something (in this case the balls) are of one color instead here we start from fractions that tells you BOTH colors in the balls