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Which is greater X or Y [#permalink] New post   19 May 2017, 01:58
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Quantity A
Quantity B
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y


A) Quantity A is greater.
B) Quantity B is greater.
C) The two quantities are equal.
D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
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Re: X or Y is greater [#permalink] New post   22 May 2017, 08:22
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Quantity A
Quantity B
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y


A) Quantity A is greater.
B) Quantity B is greater.
C) The two quantities are equal.
D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.


Tricky!!
The author of this question wants us to think that the line through the triangle is perpendicular to the base.
However, this would be an unwarranted conclusion, since we're not told that it's perpendicular (although it certainly looks perpendicular :-D )

If it were perpendicular, then x and y would be equal.
However, it's also possible that the line is NOT perpendicular in which case, x and y are NOT equal

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Re: X or Y is greater [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2018, 11:20
I chose D
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Re: Which is greater X or Y [#permalink] New post   12 Jan 2019, 08:25
Answere D.
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Re: Which is greater X or Y [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2019, 13:10
Very Tricky! At first glance
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Re: Which is greater X or Y [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2019, 18:24
it should be D
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Re: Which is greater X or Y [#permalink] New post   29 Aug 2019, 09:35
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This illustrates what Brent was talking about. You can have an isosceles triangle with two equal angles, and two equal sides, and still have two top angles formed by a non-perpendicular line, which have unequal angles.

As he said, obviously the question writer wants the viewer to jump to the conclusion that the line is perpendicular, even though it might not be because they didn't mark it as such.

So, as everyone else already mentioned, we can't say that A and B are equal because they might not be. So, D.
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