Question: Choose 1 ; if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered using the other statement alone.Choose 2 ; if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.Choose 3 ; if the question can be answered by using both statements together, but cannot be answered using either statement alone.Choose 4 ; if the question cannot be answered even by using both statements together.
Two friends, Ram and Gopal, bought apples from a wholesale dealer. How many apples did they buy?
Ram bought one-half the number of apples that Gopal bought.
The wholesale dealer had a stock of 500 apples.
Statement A simply gives the ratio of apples between Ram and Gopal.
∴ Statement A is not alone sufficient to answer the question.
Statement B doesn’t provide any information related to number of apples bought by Ram and Gopal.
Even after combining both the statements A and B together, the question cannot be answered.
Hence, option (d).