Welcome to the second installment of Workbook Wednesdays. Thanks again to Manhattan GMAT for supplying today’s question and (more importantly) tomorrow’s answer! Just like last week, this problem mimics the most advanced quantitative problems on the exam, the type of problem you will see if you are scoring around 700 or higher.
Question
A restaurant pays a seafood distributor d dollars for 6 pounds of Maine lobster. Each pound can make v vats of lobster bisque, and each vat makes b bowls of lobster bisque. If the cost of the lobster per bowl is an integer, and if v and b are different prime integers, then which of the following is the smallest possible value of d?
(A) 15
(B) 24
(C) 36
(D) 54
(E) 90
Get out your pencils and scratch paper, and be sure to check back tomorrow for an in depth look at the answer!
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