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Hey , can anyone explain the formula way ?? if there are 4 green colored jellybeans and 4 red colored jelly beans???? I used Stuart Kovinsky's coin flip approach to solve this question in less than 30 seconds!!! the real challenge, though, is to figure that this question indeed merits a coin flip s...
- by viidyasagar
Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:17 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: probability
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2274
Tough Veritas
Sylvia: Some psychologists attribute complex reasoning to reptiles, claiming that simple stimulus-response explanations of some reptiles behaviours, such as food gathering, cannot account for the complexity of such behaviour. But since experiments show that reptiles are incapable of making major alt...
- by viidyasagar
Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:26 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Tough Veritas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3774
- by viidyasagar
Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:23 pm- Forum: GMAT Math
- Topic: Papgust's GMAT MATH FLASHCARDS directory
- Replies: 146
- Views: 98194
hi Abhishek:
awesome score!!!! congrats with ur applications....
can you explain what it takes to do SO well in math? Any help from CAT (Indian MBA entrance test) materials?
regards
- by viidyasagar
Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:33 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 770 (Q-51, V-42) feels good
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6905
The answer to B (whether yes or no) does not have any impact on the Conclusion...... read the 1st line - if Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy....now look at B and eliminate it.... There are 2 kinds of districts.....with saveall and without saveall....C correctly questio...
- by viidyasagar
Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:50 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Morganville
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9896
Read The executives at NorthCoast Airlines recently debated whether the costs associated with constructing, deploying, and maintaining these types of systems for their small regional carrier were warranted Which of the following, assuming it is true, constitutes the most serious oversight in the de...
- by viidyasagar
Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:40 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: North Coast Airlines
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1913
Knewton - Greenhouse whiteflies
A fatal disease caused by the parasite Encarsia formosa and spread by greenhouse whiteflies has already killed 50 percent of the cucumber crops planted on the Redfern farm, the largest cucumber producing farm in the northeastern United States. Trialeurodes vaporariorum kills the larvae of greenhouse...
- by viidyasagar
Mon May 24, 2010 6:27 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Knewton - Greenhouse whiteflies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1966
Becky, assumption is a great way to look at the Q, however i thought this was an inference question. May I take you through my thought process??? Step 1 - Analyze prompt Situation 1 : The company's designers carefully checked to see that the colors and detailing were consistent for each of its produ...
- by viidyasagar
Mon May 24, 2010 5:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Correctly judging the best design
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1992
Correctly judging the best design
Source: Knewton Correctly judging the best design for manufactured products can be a more complicated process than it might seem. Consider, for example, a certain motorcycle company: although the company's designers carefully checked to see that the colors and detailing were consistent for each of i...
- by viidyasagar
Mon May 24, 2010 2:55 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Correctly judging the best design
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1992
Another reason is that poor people, who will not be able to afford health savings accounts, will no longer receive vaccinations against infectious diseases This says that those poor people who can't afford health savings accounts, will not receive vaccinations against infectious diseases.. Now read...
- by viidyasagar
Mon May 17, 2010 5:44 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: MGMAT CAT3 CR Doubts II
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1602
We conducted a 2-year study of 1000 recreational cyclists, some of whom always wore reflective clothing while cycling (group A). These 1000 cyclists were involved in 600 traffic accidents during the study, and the cyclists who did not always wear reflective clothing while cycling (group B) accounte...
- by viidyasagar
Sat May 15, 2010 12:37 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: recent university study
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4469
Learnt something new!!!! Anterior assumptions, never to pre-phrase on assumptions. Infact, go, straighaway, into denial mode!!!
Testluv, I bow to thee...how do i become like you???
This Q is GMATesque for sure, isn't it?
- by viidyasagar
Thu May 13, 2010 9:42 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: rhinoceros horns
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2261
@ gtvisa2002...lol @ brainwashing... I AGREE that B is better than D....but B alone is insufficient, that's all.... Even if the US is a significant consumer, both the US and the rest of the world MUST complement each other to reduce overall consumption... basically B+D is my answer....In Data Suffic...
- by viidyasagar
Thu May 13, 2010 5:31 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Earth's Resource
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4995
Because of the lucrative but illegal trade in rhinoceros horns, a certain rhinoceros species has been hunted nearly to extinction. Therefore an effective way to ensure the survival of that species would be to periodically trim off the horns of all rhinoceroses, thereby eliminating the motivation fo...
- by viidyasagar
Thu May 13, 2010 5:01 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: rhinoceros horns
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2261
Good one Macmohan......it easily comes down to B and E... B. Nearly 99 percent of five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth have vanished. B is wrong because...."that appeared" is a simple past tense....we need the sentence to convey that something s...
- by viidyasagar
Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:27 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 99 percent
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2621