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akay: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 53; Joined: Sun May 06, 2007 5:03 am

GMAT prep - Oddball problem

by akay » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:25 am

There must be a way of doing this without brute force. Any ideas? Thanks

If it is 6:27 in the evening on a certain day, what time in the morning was it exactly 2,880,717 minutes earlier? (Assume standard time in one location.)

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Re: GMAT prep - Oddball problem

by gabriel » Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:46 am

akay wrote:There must be a way of doing this without brute force. Any ideas? Thanks

If it is 6:27 in the evening on a certain day, what time in the morning was it exactly 2,880,717 minutes earlier? (Assume standard time in one location.)

divide the number of minutes by 60 .. u will get the number of hrs .. then divide the number of hrs by 24 and u will get the number of days .. get my drift ??