Explanation
This question is prone to
algebra errors and it has friendly answer choices, so I'll prefer to analyze it
by cases, using the answer choices. I'll start with (A), 10, since it's easy to
work with, and then I can double it to get a sense of (D) and the answer
choices in between. If the answer is 10, 10 is the number of seminars. In that
case, there are 4 unconstrained seminars, originally designed for 18 attendees
each, and 6 constrained seminars, originally designed for 18 attendees each but
constrained to 15 attendees each. The minimum number of attendees that would
attend the four unconstrained one is, first, (since the
other ones are overful anyway, they have no where else to go) plus the overflow, which in this case
must be people per
constrained seminar, of which there are 6, giving us
That's supposed to be the
minimum number of attendees in the 4 unconstrained sessions, but it's too
small, because we are told that number is 93. However, I can see that adding
one constrained seminar will increase the overflow by 3, making this sum
correct.
The correct answer is (B).
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