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- by parul9
Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:57 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Cats and dogs
- Replies: 45
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Lysosomes
Lysosomal storage diseases form a category of genetic disorders resulting from defective enzymes that normally function to break down unneeded molecules in cells. These enzymes do their work in the lysosome, a small compartment in a cell analogous to a garbage disposal. When any one of the lysosomal...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:41 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Lysosomes
- Replies: 2
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Adverse Select
Adverse selection may be making health insurance prohibitively expensive for the unemployed. In this negative feedback loop, rising insurance premiums cause the healthiest consumers to opt out of their plans, increasing the average risk of the pool. Insurers raise prices to offset that increased ris...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:34 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Adverse Select
- Replies: 2
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Dreams - MGMAT RC
Scientific advances in the twentieth century have allowed researchers to study the chemical activities taking place in the sleeping human brain. In the 1970s, researcher Barry Jacobs drew on these advances to propose that a shared neurochemical basis in the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepineph...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:26 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Dreams - MGMAT RC
- Replies: 1
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Carpet Tunnel - MGMAT
Doctor: Research shows that adolescents who play video games on a regular basis are three times as likely to develop carpal tunnel syndrome as are adolescents who do not play video games. Federal legislation that prohibits the sale of video games to minors would help curb this painful wrist conditio...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:18 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Carpet Tunnel - MGMAT
- Replies: 3
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Issue Analysis
ESSAY QUESTION: "Status as a 'superpower' does not make a country responsible for policing world affairs. Even a superpower should remain neutral towards world events except in cases of self-defense." Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the position stated above. Suppor...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:04 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: Issue Analysis
- Replies: 3
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Argument Analysis
ESSAY QUESTION: The following appeared in a corporate memorandum of a beverage manufacturer: “Our promotional price reductions on energy drinks have been highly successful, as we have seen a dramatic increase in unit sales. Further, surveys of our consumers indicate that this promotion was favora...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:58 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: Argument Analysis
- Replies: 2
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Not sure if I am correct, but will try to attempt this. Case 1: Train meets an accident 60 kms from A A------60kms---------(Acc1)---------------------------------B =>train is 1hr 12 mins late xkm/s 5/6x km/s Case 2: Train meets an accident 120 kms from A. A------60kms---------(Acc1)-----60kms------(...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:37 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: anybody has an easy way to solve this PS, please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2785
statement 1 tells nothing about the slope of b
statement 2 compares absolute values of slope. Nothing can be derived from that either.
Both these statements are hence insufficient. So, A,B and D are out.
Combining the two statements also leads to nothing. C is out.
Answer: E.
- by parul9
Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:25 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Slopes DS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1440
Statement 1 says that K is parallel to Y axis, and intersects with M at (1,-1), so these two lines intersect. But it tells nothing about the slope of M. So insufficient. Statement 2 also says the same thing but does not tell anything about the slope of M. Insufficient. Combining 1 and 2 also tells n...
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:21 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMATPrep geometry
- Replies: 3
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:14 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: MGMAT CR - Inorganic pesticides -Experts please reply.
- Replies: 13
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OA is A . I want to know why option E is incorrect as it talks about a valid goal. Parent - "prohibiting students from having cell phones is an overreaction. If a student uses one and thus interferes with instruction, confiscate it." So, basically the parent is of the opinion that cell ph...
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:01 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Don't create the problem
- Replies: 6
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:08 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A thorougly frightened...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2439
- by parul9
Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:06 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A thorougly frightened...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2439
I think it should be E.
One thing I am sure of is that it's definitely not C!
c. She saw, cowering in the corner of the room, a thoroughly frightened child.
who is cowering? She or the child?
Can't be, can't be!
- by parul9
Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:05 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A thorougly frightened...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2439