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Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: If a+b+c=62, what is the value of a?

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sandeepch wrote:

St 1: insufficient as we dont know the value of B

St 2: insufficient as we dont know about A

combining

a = 2c
a+b+c = 62
3c + b = 62
as one number is between b and c and b and c are integers and the values which satisfies 3c + b= 62 is 15 and 17
by this we can find the value of a which is 30(2*15)

so it is C


Very nice try. but other possible combination is (32,14, 16). It took me 4 minutes to find other possible combination and a flaw in this method. Therefore, it is insufficient to solve
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