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by abcdefg » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:41 pm
Took a Manhattan GMAT practice exam today and got this as my second quantitative question. Spent over 2 minutes on it before rushing to guess because I couldn't figure out what the heck it's asking.

The OA is B
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by Neo2000 » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:17 pm
Basically you have
Perimeter of Circle + Perimeter of Square + Length of Diagonals = q

Let side of Square = a

From the above equation you get

2Pi(a/Rt2) + 4a + 2aRt2 = q

Now, the Question is asking to find the value of a/Rt2, as it says to find the distance from the castle to the circular moat, so solve for that :)
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by abcdefg » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:42 pm
so express the radius of the circle in terms of q? was it really necessary to confuse the test taker with all the stuff about the mote and the castle. lol
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by Neo2000 » Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:41 pm
Well, the question by itself is pretty simple so i'm guessing Yeah to make it appear long and complicated :D
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