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Now, for each answer choice below, decide
if it should eliminated or if it should be kept as a possible correct
answer, based on how it compares to our approximation. Click Continue
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Choices (D) and (E) are less than $50; we know the contributor who donated
the most money must have given more than this amount. Both of these choices
may be eliminated. You may also have noticed that Choice (C), 76, is equal
to half of the total pool of money collected. Our ratio of 1 to 2 to 5,
however, is skewed to the largest contributor; '5' is considerably greater
than the other ratio parts of 1, 2 or even 3 (1 and 2 combined). This
means that the greatest contributor gave even more than half of the pool.
Choice (C) may also be eliminated. Thus, we'd have been able to guess
between 2 choices instead of 5, just based on our elimination strategy.
If we were to use the traditional
approach to ratio problems, we would have found Choice (B), 95, to
be correct.
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