How many values of n satisfy the following equation where n is a nonzero real number? n + (1/n) = k
1) k=1
2) k=2n

The answer is D. I see that both 1 and 2 lead to distinct answers, but they are different. I thought that answers on data sufficiency would be consistent with each other. Is this a flawed question?

will you send a screen shot of this question to me at help@veritasprep.com?
The questions are given in a different order to each student, so I don't have a great way to find this particular one..

Veritas Help

A little follow up here. Veritas help has responded that it is possible that this is a flawed question and they are looking into it.
For anyone trying to "solve" this problem 1) would result in x=0 and 2) results in x=1 or -1.
My question was, why are these two results not the same.

Actually, the first one has no solution, which is different than x=0 -
but we're still looking into this one.

THanks,
Veritas Help

whats the answer?

We have looked in to this. The two statements do need to be
compatible, so the question is flawed.

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