Friday, June 01, 2007

DS Question - 27

The area of a parallelogram is 100. What is the perimeter of the parallelogram ?

1) the base of the parallelogram is 10
2) one of the angles of the parallelogram is 45 degree

Answer: C

From (1) - For a parallelogram, Area = Base*Height => Height = 10 - There are infinite ways to draw a parallelogram with 100 as area, as long as the height is 10 units.( parallelograms with varying slants from 1 to 179 degrees) -- insufficent

From (2) - one of the angles is 45 degrees - hence the opposite angle is 45 degrees too, and the two remaining angles wil be 135 degrees each. But this doesn't tell us the measure of the sides to determine the perimeter - insufficient

From(1) and (2) together

From (2) we know that there is only one of such parallelograms that has an angle 45 to the base.
Base = 10. One angle = 45 degrees
In Parallelogram opposite angles are equal ..
Hence there are 2*45 degrees
Sum of all angles = 360
Thus 2*45 + 2 x = 360 which gives each other angle as 135 degrees


Note: If we are able to draw the figure on given DS question it implies conditions given are sufficient.