Explanation
We're given a list here. It's not necessarily a meaningful
group of numbers unless we are told so. They are not in order, we can see. And
the fact they all end in .2 doesn't necessarily mean anything. There are a few
typical types of question about lists on the GMAT; we might have to compute an
average of the numbers, by which we mean their mean, or their mode or median,
or their standard deviation. It turns out we just want the value of l, which may or may not be smallest in
the list. Moving on to the statements, separately first. Statement (1) doesn't
give us enough information: l could
be almost anything. Insufficient. Statement (2) gives more information, since
we have a median. If we put the list elements in order, we get
We can see that l has
to be right in the middle, so it can be the median. Since we have an odd number
of elements, including l, the median
is simply the middle number, and since that is 14.7 and is not otherwise
represented, we must have
. Statement
(2) is sufficient.
The correct answer is (B).
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