Carcass wrote:
In a row of parked cars, there are an odd number of cars. If there are 11 cars between the middle car and the leftmost car, not counting the middle and leftmost car, how many cars are in the row?
(A) 22
(B) 23
(C) 24
(D) 25
(E) 26
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GRE Math Essentials project There are 11 cars between the middle car and the leftmost car, not counting the middle and leftmost carSo, we have: (
left-most car)(11 other cars)(
middle car)......
Since there must be the same number of cars to the RIGHT of the middle car, the complete a diagram looks like this:
(
left-most car)(11 other cars)(
middle car)(11 other cars)(
right-most car)
TOTAL number of cars =
1 + 11 +
1 + 11 + 1 =
1Answer: D