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Thank you, that is very clear. To make sure I'm getting this, let me ask a simpler question. If Susie takes 4 hours to paint an entire house and Bob takes 3 hours to paint a house, how long would it take if they were to paint the house together? Use the number 12 for work to simplify the math r=12/4...
- by silencz
Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:09 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: work problem
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3468
yes, can this answer please be explained in another way. I am not familiar with these "_" symbols and there seems to be alot of these type of questions on the gmat.
- by silencz
Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:29 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: work problem
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3468
I think it's C. "Rather than accept" I don't think sounds as good as "Rather than accepting" which isn't one of the options. "Instead of accepting" I think works better because using "accept" vs. "accepting" should be more important than the use of &...
- by silencz
Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:29 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Christopher Columbus
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7266
oh ok thank you. I just needed that clarification to be sure that they won't do that on the actual GMAT test.
- by silencz
Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:48 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: idiom-regard
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2368
I have a question. Why do they underline the word upword if that word isn't being changed in any of the different sentence corrections? How do we know for sure here that they wish to keep the word "upword" in this sentence? If "upword" isn't meant to stay in the sentence, then th...
- by silencz
Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:12 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: idiom-regard
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2368
- by silencz
Fri May 28, 2010 7:10 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Sets prob
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2261
ok, thank you. I knew the answer to this question (and most of these DS questions) pretty much immediately, but how to solve it, I was not sure about...but that doesn't matter for these problems...so I like them 
- by silencz
Fri May 28, 2010 6:15 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Interest rate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1391
quick question, is there normally an equal amount of data sufficiency problems as there are problem solving math questions on the actual GMAT?
- by silencz
Fri May 28, 2010 5:48 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Interest rate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1391
It kinda hurts my brain trying to understand any of yalls ways of figuring out the solution to this problem. My method for this problem is far more simple, at least for me. 25 students for 1 subject 25 students for another subject 34 students for the last subject This problem is somewhat flawed to m...
- by silencz
Tue May 25, 2010 6:57 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Students choice of subject Problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6632
it can't be (-3) because if X was (-3), then (-3)^3>9, -27>9, incorrect, so answer is C, because statement 2 says that X is not (-3)
- by silencz
Mon May 24, 2010 12:05 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: What is the value of x^5 ? (1)x^2 = 9 (2) x^3 > 9
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1120
I have a question, since I just joined this site and I'm not good with probabilites and such. What do you folks mean by 9C5 and such? Please explain to me how 9C5 equates to 126.
- by silencz
Mon May 24, 2010 9:07 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: baseball team probability
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7847