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Lesson: Data Sufficiency Challenging - 11t05

Tough Content: Example 1

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If x is an odd integer, is x x > x -x ?

1) x 3 < x 2

2) xy ? – y

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If x is an odd integer, is x x > x -x ?

  Yes No    

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Let's say that x is equal to 3. If x = 3, then 33 = 27 and , so we get a "Yes." But we don’t know that it’s going to be "Yes" for negative integers too, until we try one.

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