Question: In each question there are two statements: A and B.
Choose 1 if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone but not by the other.Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but cannot be answered using either statement alone.Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered even by using both the statements A and B.
Each packet of SOAP costs Rs. 10. Inside each packet is a gift coupon labelled with one of the letters S, O, A, and P. If a customer submits four such coupons that make up the word SOAP, the customer gets a free SOAP packet. Ms. X kept buying packet after packet of SOAP till she could get one set of coupons that formed the word SOAP. How many coupons with label P did she get in the above process?
A. The last label obtained by her was S and the total amount spent was Rs. 210.
Number of soaps purchased by Ms. X = 210 10
Also the last label obtained by her is S.
But this is not sufficient to get the number of P's.
∴ Statement A alone is not sufficient.
The number of O's and A's is 18.
But this is also not individually sufficient to arrive at the required answer.
∴ Statement B alone is not sufficient.
After combining both the statements A and B, we can conclude that 18 out of 21 coupons are O's and A's and that the 21st is an S.
∴This means that the remaining two are P's.
Hence, option (c).