What is the value of y? 1. y – 3 = 2 2. y^2 = 25 A. Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. B. Statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. C. Both statements [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Data Sufficiency
What is the ratio of the average (arithmetic mean) height of students in class X to the average height of students in class Y? (1) The average height of the students in class X is 120 centimeters. (2) The average height of the students in class X and class Y combined is 126 centimeters. A. [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of The Day: If x is negative, is x < -3?
If x is negative, is x < -3? (1) x^2 > 9 (2) x^3 < -9 A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. D. [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Data Sufficiency
If m and v are integers, what is the value of m + v? (1) mv = 6 (2) (m + v)^2 = 25 A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Data Sufficiency
What is the value of 3-(x + y) / 3-(x – y)? (1) x = 2 (2) y = 3 A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but [...]
Average
GMAT Question of The Day : Defined Function
If #X =3X for all odd numbers and #Y = Y/2 for all even numbers. What will be the value of #9*# 6 A) 81 B) 27 C) 64 D) 51 E) 279
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Data Sufficiency
What is the value of ?x + 7?? (1) ?x + 3?= 14 (2) (x + 2)^2 = 169 A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE [...]
GMAT Critical Reasoning
GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning
In the 1970′s there was an oversupply of college graduates. The oversupply caused the average annual income of college graduates to fall to a level only 18 percent greater than that of workers withonly high school diplomas. By the late 1980′s the average annual income of college graduates was 43 percent higher than that of [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Data Sufficiency
If x and y are positive integers and x is a multiple of y, is y = 2? (1) y ? 1 (2) x + 2 is a multiple of y. A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient [...]
GMAT Problem Solving
GMAT Question of The Day: The total number of hours it took to produce all the stereos?
Company S produces two kinds of stereos: basic and deluxe. Of the stereos produced by Company S last month,2/3 were basic and the rest were deluxe. If it takes 7/5 as many hours to produce a deluxe stereo as it does to produce a basic stereo, then the number of hours it took to produce [...]
GMAT Data Sufficiency
GMAT Question of the Day: Inequalities Data Sifficiency
If m is an integer, is m positive ? (1) 5m-10>0 (2) (m^3)-m>0 A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. C) Both statements 1 and 2 [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Sentence Correction
The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the l970′ s, rising from $ 114 to $ 220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy. (A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy (B) with what was a decrease in what they were able to [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of The Day: A study of a city’s water-use patterns shows that
A study of a city’s water-use patterns shows that for every 8x percent increase in the price of water, usage drops by x percent. If the price for water is currently $1.05 per 1,000 cubic feet, by how much should the price per 1,000 cubic feet be raised in order to obtain a reduction in [...]
GMAT Critical Reasoning
GMAT Question of The Day: Cretical Resoning
The Avary Company hired a consulting firm to advise it on how to improve retention of new employees. Avary implemented several of the consulting firm’s recommendations, and, as a result, only 5 percent of newly hired clerical staff left within twelve months of hiring, but fully 10 percent of newly hired professional staff left during [...]
GMAT Critical Reasoning
GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning
An efficiency expert studied an accounting firm to determine what factors are most important in determining employee productivity. Using criteria such as caseload and average dollar value per case, the expert determined that the most important determinant of productivity is physical surroundings. Those employees who ranked highest on the productivity criteria were also those employees [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Sentence Correction
If industrial pollution continues to deplete the ozone layer, the resulting increase in ultraviolet radiation will endanger human health, causing a rise in the incidence of skin cancer and eye disease, and perhaps even threatening global ecological systems. (A) and perhaps even threatening (B) and may even threaten (C) and even a possible threat to [...]
GMAT Critical Reasoning
GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning
The National Centers for Disease Control looked at death certificates from 1980 to 1992 and found a 58 percent increase in infectious disease deaths. Yet, the United States gets new drugs to market more slowly than any other major industrial nation. Total drug approval times have jumped from eight years in 1960 to more than [...]
1000 RC
GMAT Question of the Day: A recent generation of historians of science
A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying accepted scientific views as objectively accurate reflections of a natural world, explain the acceptance of such views in terms of the ideological biases of certain influential scientists or the institutional and rhetorical power such scientists wield. As an example of ideological bias, it has been [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: Sentence Correction
Quasars are so distant that their light has taken billions of years to reach the Earth; consequently, we see them as they were during the formation of the universe. (A) we see them as they were during (B) we see them as they had been during (C) we see them as if during (D) they [...]
GMAT Question of the Day
GMAT Question of the Day: the Cherokee, a Native American tribe
Until recently, it was thought that the Cherokee, a Native American tribe, were compelled to assimilate Euro-American culture during the 1820s. During that decade, it was supposed, White missionaries arrived and, together with their part-Cherokee intermediaries, imposed the benefits of “civilization” on Cherokee tribes while the United States government actively promoted acculturalization by encouraging the [...]
GMAT Critical Reasoning
GMAT Question of the Day: the president of the Megabiz Company
Today, the president of the Megabiz Company, L.J. Bacon, announced that the current management had turned aside a takeover bid by Engulf and Devour. Bacon explained that the vote, which was conducted by mail, was 53 percent to 47 percent against the resolution endorsing the takeover and he interpreted the result as a vote of [...]
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