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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
- 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
- by sl750
Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:01 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Parents- children
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1315