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by resilient » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:51 am
Simplify (1/3-ROOT 8 ) ^2

1. 9+8
2. 9+28
3. 9+68
4. 17+28
5. 17+68


qa is e, not quite following this!
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by GMAT_crusher » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:33 am
did not quite get the stem of the question due to the FUNNY char!!

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Re: ROOTS

by Musiq » Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:39 pm
Enginpasa1 wrote:Simplify (1/3-ROOT 8 ) ^2

1. 9+8
2. 9+28
3. 9+68
4. 17+28
5. 17+68


qa is e, not quite following this!
Hey Enginpasa,

I am fairly sure that there's something wrong with those options. There is no way that the irrational number ROOT of 8, would get resolved into simple integers like you stated in your options.

Please let us know if those options are indeed correct.

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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:23 pm
Yah, the question is definitely wrong.

Just estimating, 1/3 - root8 = approx .333 - 2.8 = approx -2.5

-2.5 squared is 6.25. None of the answers are even remotely close.
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by cjiang16 » Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:45 pm
none of the five answers is correct.
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