How to Quickly Solve Overlapping Ratios

This topic stumps so many students! In this 8 minute vid, learn my secret for competently dealing with overlapping ratios. These even come up in real life, not just the GRE and GMAT! If you learn anything, please do leave a thumbs up!
Overlapping ratios are sometimes called combining ratios or dealing with two ratios, or even three ratios.
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  • @sydneyriemer4312
    @sydneyriemer43123 жыл бұрын

    Hi Phillip, thanks. Another strategy could be to write the ratios as fractions labelled by what they represent, and then multiply or divide the fraction accordingly until you get the desired ratio. This would be similar to switching units by cancelling out terms. For the first example, apples to oranges (A/O) = 3/4 and pears to oranges (P/O) = 6/5. In order to get the desired ratio, apples to pears (A/P) you need to divide A/O by P/O so that the O's cancel out and you are left with A/P. This works for multiple ratios too. Might be quicker than writing out a table and I think it's pretty intuitive. What do you think?

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    True, nice one Sydney

  • @rabinsonrai2905

    @rabinsonrai2905

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man. I was going to skip this question because of it was so complicated even after watching this video. Nice observation .

  • @sandhyapaudyal2089

    @sandhyapaudyal2089

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Sydney, This was really helpful and less confusing!

  • @naunhoc92
    @naunhoc923 жыл бұрын

    I have different method and hope everyone can understand Y8/Y9 = 2/3 Y9/Y11 = 4/5 Y10/Y11 = 5/6 Based on the question, we would want Y8/Y10 = ?? I'll multiple all ratio together while trying to make Y8 as numerator, Y11 as denominator and cancel out Y9, Y11 by putting them on both numerator and denominator Y8/Y9 * Y9/Y11 * Y11/Y10 = 2/3 * 4/5 * 6/5 = 48 / 75 = 16 / 25

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow nice Khoai

  • @SaniRattani

    @SaniRattani

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you SO much for sharing this, @naunhoc92 ❤

  • @kukuavan-ess2563

    @kukuavan-ess2563

    8 ай бұрын

    Wow.. you’ve made this simple for me. Thank youuuu

  • @marvin0097
    @marvin00974 жыл бұрын

    Hi Phillip. I like your videos! Especially when I compare them with other videos available on youtube. Yours are always concise, direct and count with the right length! One does not get bored or frustrated because of lengthy unnecessary conversation. Thanks a lot!

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thanks

  • @jeanvilbertpereira9233
    @jeanvilbertpereira9233 Жыл бұрын

    Super useful! One thing I did to try to speed up in the last case was to draw an additional column on the right and then write the multiplier in each row to get all adjusted in one go. So starting from the bottom, I multiplied the last row by 5 and the above row by 6 to get the common ratio of 30 (Y10 and Y11), and then the first row by 4 to get 28 (Y9 and Y11). So we have all rows in the same proportion at once. Thanks for the amazing teaching!

  • @justiceforall5782
    @justiceforall57822 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Philip for making the concepts easy and logical specially for those who are from medical background :)

  • @shibanisabnis790
    @shibanisabnis7903 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your videos. They really really help!

  • @ihuomaokoro-ebi3837
    @ihuomaokoro-ebi38373 жыл бұрын

    Nothing short of amazing

  • @ibukunoyeleke1470
    @ibukunoyeleke14706 ай бұрын

    Thank you ❤

  • @JD-ef4ii
    @JD-ef4ii2 жыл бұрын

    You saved me a lot of time my friend, I'm gonna say this in Spanish: ''MIL GRACIAS HMNO, DIOS TE PAGUE'', bc you are the best of the best! GOD Bless u!

  • @tommyshelby2020
    @tommyshelby2020 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing as always! Thanks philip! #gre #grequants #quants

  • @shaikhaalothman6439
    @shaikhaalothman64393 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing THANK YOU!

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Shaikha, thank you. Hope all is well.

  • @siddhantbhadsavale7132
    @siddhantbhadsavale71324 жыл бұрын

    Hello, Thanks for this video Could you make a video for percentiles?

  • @nusairashahab3764
    @nusairashahab37644 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Philip. Thank you so much for the amazing tutorials. I am struggling with overlapping sets. Can you please make a video on this topic? It would be of great help. Thanks in advance.

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great suggestion!

  • @bilalansarkhan3008
    @bilalansarkhan30083 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a ton

  • @silkinaraha6496
    @silkinaraha64963 жыл бұрын

    As usual the best!

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much Silkina

  • @achaleshwaripatil5968
    @achaleshwaripatil59683 жыл бұрын

    Hey Philip, Great suggestions and easy tricks given by you. Thanks for sharing :) . Request you to kindly share some strategy videos on work and time, Pipes and Cisterns, Time speed and distance. Would be of great help

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great suggestions!

  • @jturlais
    @jturlais3 жыл бұрын

    AMAZING trick, again!

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again Joseph

  • @narayankhanal9662
    @narayankhanal9662 Жыл бұрын

    Much appreciated

  • @syedrahmani512
    @syedrahmani5124 жыл бұрын

    Please make more quant videos..I am giving my gre next month and your videos are really helping me alot..Please upload more and more stuff 😃

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes I will syed

  • @AnsImran
    @AnsImran2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @eyewuenemurphy-akpieyi3544
    @eyewuenemurphy-akpieyi3544 Жыл бұрын

    I am preparing to write the GRE May/June. I want to know if I would have covered all the needed topics in quant and verbal if I follow your videos especially the quant videos divided into weeks. Also what practice question bank is better magoosh or ETS?

  • @olawaleoluwaseun5789
    @olawaleoluwaseun57892 жыл бұрын

    Can I get the link to your channel, I want to use your videos has revision a day before my examination

  • @matthewpotash7650
    @matthewpotash76503 жыл бұрын

    Great tip for the overlapping ratios. This way you are not comparing apples and oranges, so to speak

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very true!

  • @yousefalzein2765
    @yousefalzein27654 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much brother on your efforts i appreciate that, please i need your help and your advice, i did my gre actual exam and get 153, studied from manhattan 5lb, manhattan strategy, ETS official guide and ETS quantitative reasoning book, and magoosh 589 quant questions, what i must do it to get score more than 155 in quantitative reasoning and how many questions must i solve correctly in each section to get more than 155 in GRE quant. thanks a lot

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Check out gregmat's scoring video on the GRE!

  • @brighttawiah3079
    @brighttawiah30792 жыл бұрын

    Please Sir this method can also be used using the Chain Rule For instance for Question 1=Apple/Pear =Apple/Orange x Orange/Pear 3/4 x 5/6=5/8 For question 2 same method apply Y(8)/Y(10)= Y(8)/Y(9) x Y(9)/Y(11)x Y(11)/ Y(10) 2/3 x 4/5 x 6/5= 16/25 or 16:25

  • @ronakmishra8996

    @ronakmishra8996

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro in the 1st one it will be 6/5 right why took 3/4 x ""5/6"" instead of 6/5 And in the second ques 2/3 x 4/5 x ""6/5"" should be 5/6 right? i see that you flipped the last values in both ? can u explain

  • @azsense2024
    @azsense20244 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your wonderful videos. can you please add this question to your probability example video. What is the probability of forming the word “ADDS” by picking 4 cards at random and kept in the same order out of 50 cards given with 10 cards having “A”, 10 having “S”, and the remaining 30 having “D” on it?

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great idea. Letter arrangement can be one I do soon.

  • @d.t.3787

    @d.t.3787

    4 жыл бұрын

    What’s the solution here kindly explain? Permutations

  • @koi4004
    @koi40044 жыл бұрын

    Genius !!

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Arif!

  • @rajugandu1927
    @rajugandu19274 жыл бұрын

    Hey man keep making videos your videos are really instructive so yeah keep going and maybe start something like 5 to 10 dollar per month service just like greg mat once you built strong community

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I am wondering about youtube memberships or patreon...

  • @chitranshasiwal6791
    @chitranshasiwal67912 жыл бұрын

    How to find the required ratio to get a final ratio?

  • @zaahidhaasaan6048
    @zaahidhaasaan60483 жыл бұрын

    Helpful

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear that Zaahid

  • @ishanpathak2526
    @ishanpathak25264 ай бұрын

    Great

  • @akhilkalaga141
    @akhilkalaga1414 жыл бұрын

    hi man...a little doubt here in one of the Princeton GRE tests, s^2=64 then s = +8 and -8 also, why is a root of 64 equals only 8 and not -8 as well...what is happening here??

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you see the root sign, that always means positive root. So just +8. If you don't see the sign, just x squared = 64, then there is a +8 and -8 solution. Weird but true!

  • @akhilkalaga141

    @akhilkalaga141

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheTestedTutor thank you soo much ..love your videos by the way ✌🏼

  • @abdusameberish6842
    @abdusameberish6842 Жыл бұрын

    great

  • @AnsImran
    @AnsImran2 жыл бұрын

    2:00 clear layout ! Happy Students !😂

  • @mahirlabib4512
    @mahirlabib45123 жыл бұрын

    Great video but I found an easier way I think. Rewrite both in terms of oranges, then substitute in the required ratio. A=3oranges/4 and we have P=6oranges/5. So A/P=(3or/4)*(5/6or)=15/24=5/8. Hope this helps.

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great tip! But for harder overlapping (like 4 or more sets), subbing could get quite difficult

  • @mahirlabib4512

    @mahirlabib4512

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheTestedTutor I agree! I will keep in mind of your row technique for bigger problems. Subbing can get risky for more than three variables!

  • @darshanenterprises8981
    @darshanenterprises89813 жыл бұрын

    we could have directly divide and eliminated orange

  • @joeboxter3635
    @joeboxter36357 ай бұрын

    Wait a minute! How did *you* know I have an uncle bob? No, really. I want to know how you knew?!!

  • @seabasschukwu6988
    @seabasschukwu6988Ай бұрын

    Can you not skip steps when teaching new concepts, it makes it hard to grasp

  • @doyinsola.e6898
    @doyinsola.e68984 жыл бұрын

    You are too much

  • @TheTestedTutor

    @TheTestedTutor

    4 жыл бұрын

    In a good way, I hope?