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ID: GMAT-DI-DS-019
Section: Data Insights - Data Sufficiency (DS)
Topic: Statistics
Difficulty level: Medium

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Every employee of a certain firm is either an analyst or an associate. Last year the average (arithmetic mean) bonus of the analysts was $4{,}000$ dollars and the average bonus of the associates was $9{,}000$ dollars. What was the average bonus of all the employees of the firm last year?

There were $3$ times as many analysts as associates at the firm.
The analysts received a total of $120{,}000$ dollars in bonuses last year, and the associates received a total of $90{,}000$ dollars.

AStatement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) ALONE is not sufficient to answer the question asked.

BStatement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) ALONE is not sufficient to answer the question asked.

CBOTH statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question asked, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked.

DEACH statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked.

EStatements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question asked, and additional data specific to the problem are needed.

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