## If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number of

##### This topic has expert replies
Moderator
Posts: 2058
Joined: Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:24 am
Thanked: 1 times
Followed by:5 members

### If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number of

by M7MBA » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:37 am

00:00

A

B

C

D

E

## Global Stats

If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number of marbles. What is the greatest possible number of marbles that were in the jar originally?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. 6

Source: GMAT Prep

Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
Posts: 17
Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:44 am

### Re: If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number

by PhillipZhang87 » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:58 pm
x+9 = 3x
x = 4.5
Therefore x < 4.5 so that it's over 3x the original marble so answer is C.
Alternatively, you could just add 9 to the solutions and find the lowest answer that is three times the original solution.

### GMAT/MBA Expert

GMAT Instructor
Posts: 7106
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:56 am
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Thanked: 43 times
Followed by:29 members

### Re: If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number

by Scott@TargetTestPrep » Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:15 am
M7MBA wrote:
Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:37 am
If 9 marbles were added to a jar of marbles, the number of marbles would be greater than 3 times the original number of marbles. What is the greatest possible number of marbles that were in the jar originally?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. 6

Solution:

Let x be the number of marbles originally in the jar. We can create the following inequality:

9 + x > 3x

9 > 2x

4.5 > x

Since x < 4.5 and x is an integer, the greatest possible value of x is 4.
{"found_math": false, "script_math_tex": 0, "script_math_asciimath": 0, "math_annotations": 0, "math_alttext": 0, "mathml": 0, "mathjax_tag": 0, "mathjax_inline_tex": 0, "mathjax_display_tex": 0, "mathjax_asciimath": 0, "img_math": 0, "codecogs_latex": 0, "wp_latex": 0, "mimetex.cgi": 0, "/images/math/codecogs": 0, "mathtex.cgi": 0, "katex": 0, "math-container": 0, "wp-katex-eq": 0, "align": 0, "equation": 0, "x-ck12": 0, "texerror": 0, "url": "https://www.beatthegmat.com/if-9-marbles-were-added-to-a-jar-of-marbles-the-number-of-marbles-would-be-greater-than-3-times-the-original-number-of-t317220.html?sid=35edb797da43e6f796a139ef1bae7449", "fetch_time": 1701165644000000000, "content_mime_type": "text/html", "warc_filename": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099281.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128083443-20231128113443-00354.warc.gz", "warc_record_offset": 731977942, "warc_record_length": 296961, "token_count": 642, "char_count": 1983, "score": 4.28125, "int_score": 4, "crawl": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "snapshot_type": "latest", "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9443329572677612, "file_path": "/sailhome/yjruan/project/latent-lm/data/processed/finemath-4plus/finemath-4plus/train-00048-of-00064.parquet"}