Let's suppose that there were no wording mistakes in the problem, shouldn't the answer be A? statement 1: "The x-intercept of k is 0." The only possibility for the x intercept to be 0 is that line k has an equation of the form y=mx where m is different from 0. SUFFICIENT statement 2: &quo...

RonPurewal Wrote:
i didn't know this was a contest.

Far from it Ron. Have been a huge fan in fact. :)


On y=b. Agree, no x intercept (which does not mean 0 intercept)

i don't think you've corrected Ron on anything here! i've kind of adopted a mindset where if it looks at first like Ron is wrong on the forums i probably just made a mistake. then i go back and look for my mistake, and i always find it! i recommend this approach to everyone; being able to accept th...

C.) there are fewer than one-quarter of that number if I use number for option C, will it be correct? is the usage of 'that' correct here? Ron, I've been messing up comparison/quantity sentences, mostly because I'm too skeptical to use a pronoun in the comparison. I've found that most of the times t...