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Hi Even I was testing some numbers but getting different result: 1973=10/100=10% 1976=13.4/105=12.75% Where am I going wrong? Received a pm. Can anyone explain with the following example? 1973 1976 ------------------------------------------------------- cigarettes--1000 1034 tobacco--- 1000 1180 pop...
- by sinhap07
Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:49 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Tricky CR!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5004
Hi Stacey I have always found pronouns a scare. Please be the one who eliminates this scare. I have always read that pronouns on GMAT should not take more than one noun. Here clearly "it" in option C can take more than one-the way you have mentioned. Then how come C is correct here-Iam not...
- by sinhap07
Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:00 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Most Significant Medical Breakthrough
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3873
In Kantovia, physicians’ income comes from insurance companies, which require physicians to document their decisions in treating patients and to justify deviations from the companies’ treatment guidelines. Ten years ago physicians were allowed more discretion. Most physicians believe that the c...
- by sinhap07
Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:29 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Physician
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8066
Hi guys......i checked on many sites........ Both potential to be .......and potential as ....are correct.......... Verbal instructors please explain which one of the two should we use in this context....... and also pls explain the rest of the sentence....... Potential to [verb], potential as [nou...
- by sinhap07
Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:45 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Gas hydrates
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7524
RC - Two hypothesis - Weaken Question
Wow this is a really tough choice between C and D, and I really don't think I can call it either way. What is the source for this question and what is the OA? Thanks It's not a tough choice, unless you make it one by second guessing yourself instead of aggressively eliminating. ldoolitt got it righ...
- by sinhap07
Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:25 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC - Two hypothesis - Weaken Question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15592
Thank you David. Will try to focus more on the logic. Let' see how it works. Hi David I really get confused in such types of arguments. I believe this is a cause-effect argument. But in this there is no alternate cause given to weaken. Rather the conclusion given itself falls. There are other argume...
- by sinhap07
Tue Oct 03, 2017 3:49 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: A certain mayor has proposed a fee of five dollars per day
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6364
Hi David I really get confused in such types of arguments. I believe this is a cause-effect argument. But in this there is no alternate cause given to weaken. Rather the conclusion given itself falls. There are other arguments where conclusion doesnt fall but some alternate reason is cited for the c...
- by sinhap07
Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:38 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: A certain mayor has proposed a fee of five dollars per day
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6364
Why not option B in question 9? Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness; our “openness� is to be the measure of our stability. Fascinat...
- by sinhap07
Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:49 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: 1000 RC Passage 2 Q 3&6
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20767
Hi In this cant we do 1-P(All reach the right envelope) ie 1-1/6=5/6? When do we normally apply the 1- P rule apart from atleast cases? The probability of getting the first one wrong is 2/3. You now have two letters left and two envelopes. The probability of getting the second one wrong is 1/2. Sinc...
- by sinhap07
Sun Feb 26, 2017 6:44 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: letter and envelope
- Replies: 21
- Views: 27680
Iam really in a fix. When I do OG questions I find them nowhere close to the tricky ones in gmatprep and I get them wrong. Questions in gmatprep are limited and people advise to use them sparingly. Other test companies don't capture the same level that gmac designs. So once you take gmatprep a few t...
- by sinhap07
Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:10 am- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: Kaplan Premiere Practice Tests difficulty
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4722
Hi Rich Have a doubt with parallelism in this question. I went for B thinking that "to help surgeons plan...and to develop programs" Vs "to help surgeons plan and develop programs" should be one and the same with no parallel errors as we are dealing with a conjunction "and&q...
- by sinhap07
Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Researchers are using computer images to help surgeons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5730
For a particular model of moving truck, rental agency A charges a daily fee of m dollars, plus n cents per mile. For the same model of truck, rental agency B charges a daily fee of p dollars, plus q cents per mile. If a driver plans to rent this model of truck for two days, which of the following e...
- by sinhap07
Tue Sep 08, 2015 2:28 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Rental agency A charges a daily fee of m dollars...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5437
For a particular model of moving truck, rental agency A charges a daily fee of m dollars, plus n cents per mile. For the same model of truck, rental agency B charges a daily fee of p dollars, plus q cents per mile. If a driver plans to rent this model of truck for two days, which of the following e...
- by sinhap07
Tue Sep 08, 2015 2:28 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Rental agency A charges a daily fee of m dollars...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5437
Abhishek009 has given a very thorough discussion of this problem. I will simply try to explain it in a few words and draw on some techniques that we can apply to INFERENCE questions in general. Inference questions such as this one - you can tell it is an inference because it says "which of the...
- by sinhap07
Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:34 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Arrested for Peddling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1885