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Given: A sandwich shop offers a sandwich menu, a soup menu, and a salad menu. The number of salads listed on the salad menu is twice the number of sandwiches listed on the sandwich menu and 1 more than the number of soups listed on the soup menu.

Asked: How many soups are listed on the soup menu?

Let number of salads, number of soup and number of sandwich be x, y & z respectively.

x = 2z = y + 1
y = 2z - 1
y = ?

(1) The total number of choices a customer has when choosing 1 item from each of 2 of the menus is 63.
xy + yz + zx = 63
2z(2z-1) + (2z-1)z + 2z*z = 63
4z^2 - 2z + 2z^2 - z + 2z^2 = 63
8z^2 -3z - 63 = 0
8z^2 + 21z - 24z - 63 = 0
(z-3)(8z+21) = 0
z = 3
y = 2z - 1 = 5
SUFFICIENT

(2) The total number of choices a customer has when choosing 1 item from each of the 3 menus is 90.
xyz = 90
2z(2z-1)z = 90
z^2(2z-1) = 45
z = 3
y = 2z -1 = 5
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­Sorry, could someone explain why you can use this as simple permutation (vs. it being combination/ pick and having to divide by 2! and 3! respectively for the two scenarios?)

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­Sorry, could someone explain why you can use this as simple permutation (vs. it being combination/ pick and having to divide by 2! and 3! respectively for the two scenarios?)

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That's because the order of selection doesn't matter. The statement mentions "The total number of choices...", which implies that the order of selection is not relevant. For instance, selecting sandwich 1 and soup 2 is considered the same choice as selecting soup 2 and sandwich 1.
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Re: A sandwich shop offers a sandwich menu, a soup menu, and a salad menu. [#permalink]
What is the x*2x etc? How do you get there from xC1 , 2x-1C1 etc?
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A sandwich shop offers a sandwich menu, a soup menu, and a salad menu. The number of salads listed on the salad menu is twice the number of sandwiches listed on the sandwich menu and 1 more than the number of soups listed on the soup menu.
How many soups are listed on the soup menu?

(1) The total number of choices a customer has when choosing 1 item from each of 2 of the menus is 63.
(2) The total number of choices a customer has when choosing 1 item from each of the 3 menus is 90.


 

Yes finally a new/ unsolved one: here it goes -

Lets look at the Qn stem: Salad = 2* Sandwich(say x) and Soup = Salad-1

So we have Sandwich : Salad : Soup = x : 2x : 2x-1.

S1 - Sufficient 1 item each taken 2 items at a time: Sandwich and Salad +Sandwich and Soup + Salad and Soup = x*2x + x*(2x-1) + 2x*(2x-1)=63 [Solving the equation gives x=3]. Note: x cant be fractions, as no of items listed is a whole number.

S2 - Sufficient all 3 items taken 1 each: x*2x*(2x-1) =90 [you can write the same as xC1/1Cx - whichever notion you prefer to use to arrive at the same expanded form]. Solving the equation gives x=3 [3*6*5 = 90].

IMO D. Missed adding this out last time, so updated :)

Tip: If you see such Qns don't give into the urge to mark 'C' thinking it is a Quadratic/ Polynomial equation as it could be quite possible to solve without additional info.

Hope this helps :)

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Re: A sandwich shop offers a sandwich menu, a soup menu, and a salad menu. [#permalink]
Really struggling on the wording from Statement 1... Bunuel can you please break down how you derived an equation from Statement 1?
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