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Thanks for clarifying, Pete!.

The solution I posted obviously doesn't work for cases with an odd number of unique letters

by sl750

Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:09 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: tough one - combinations
Replies: 20
Views: 3755
by sl750

Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:02 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Only POE works!!
Replies: 3
Views: 1458

Conventional wisdom

Conventional wisdom has it that large deficits in the United States budget cause interest rates to rise. Two main arguments are given for this claim. According to the first, as the deficit increases, the government will borrow more to make up for the ensuing shortage of funds. Consequently, it is ar...

by sl750

Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:06 am
Forum: Reading Comprehension
Topic: Conventional wisdom
Replies: 1
Views: 1312

This argument is very similar to an OG argument on wines and the effect of sulphur, if I remember correctly, on the wine consumers Answer is E. The argument has to assume that there is no naturally occurring glucose present in large quantities in the ice creams sold by these manufactures, otherwise ...

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:31 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Diabetes
Replies: 2
Views: 924

The argument uses correlation to conclude causation Presence of 200 companies The countries employment rate has risen Therefore, these new companies are responsible for the many new job opportunities in Country X Choice C supports this claim by telling us that each new company employs on average hal...

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:24 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: industrial economy
Replies: 1
Views: 864

choice D tells us that the public who oppose coal mining are NOT completely against banning it. In other words, this actually allows the state to grant some companies to operate in some mines for some time

choice C is more of a prediction. This is not supported in the passage

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:16 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Public mining
Replies: 1
Views: 944

Of the lot, only A seems to give some support

The funny thing in choice D is that it has a grammatical error. The relative pronoun which modifies pesticides??

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:56 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Oh poor farmer!!
Replies: 6
Views: 1978

We have to infer that old-age and menopause are related. So answer A strengthens the claim that
lower estrogen levels make women more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:47 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Women- Menopause- Heart attack!
Replies: 1
Views: 910

This is a math problem
Profit = revenue-costs

The cost and revenue of xylophones are given in percentage terms. We can compute the profit in percentage terms. So D is the answer

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:41 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Company WXYZ
Replies: 2
Views: 1307

Choice B helps the government achieve the intended effect. The animals help the farmers in identifying the weed

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:35 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Only POE works!!
Replies: 3
Views: 1458

This clubbing results in 4 empty slots, we can treat this empty slots as filled by some imaginary letter, say n. In this case, we have 8!/4! ways of arranging the letters i didnt get this part of the solution.. after clubbing all alike letters together, where did the 4 empty slots come from???? As ...

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:16 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: tough one - combinations
Replies: 20
Views: 3755

I don't know how you guys figured the answer to be E. None of the choices make any sense

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:44 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Vague SC
Replies: 7
Views: 1335

The question doesn't seem to be worded correctly, but this can be solved using the double matrix method -------------------- Java developer--------Not a Java developer |Total PHP developer | Not a PHP developer | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Total Now just fill i...

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:32 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: ratio problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1202

This question is similar to an OG question on Earthquakes. If you chose A, it is wrong because it suggests that the dogs were distributed and exterminated at the same time. This makes no sense In C, there are two past tense events. City had taken an initiative to protect local residents -- This occu...

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:28 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: WILD DOGS
Replies: 5
Views: 1168

choice E

A,B,C,D are unidomatic

by sl750

Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:01 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Parents- children
Replies: 7
Views: 1315