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mundasingh123 wrote:water is green in colorstormier wrote:wanting is not a gerund hereatulmangal wrote:The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home
quickly, took a short cut.
Participle I = tired
Participle II = wanting (gerund)
- by stormier
Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:50 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: weak in basics pls clear the doubt
- Replies: 7
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The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. C. tired aft...
- by stormier
Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: weak in basics pls clear the doubt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2493
The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. C. tired aft...
- by stormier
Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:44 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: weak in basics pls clear the doubt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2493
How many triangles can be drawn with 17 points, if 5, 7 and 8 of them are in three different lines? The three lines intersect each other in pairs. 1. 680 2. 136 3. 569 4. 171 Number of 3 point combinations = 17C3 = 680 Of these there are several 3-point combinations that lie on a straight line and ...
- by stormier
Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:25 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: No of triangles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1730
Which sentence is correct and why ? 1) Amazon will sell as many as 7 million kindles by the end of year,adding significantly to its earnings since kindle owners appear to buy more books than other shoppers . 2) Amazon will have sold as many as 7 million kindles by the end of year,adding significant...
- by stormier
Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence Correction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1897
Hi ya'll, on og 12 sc sample question #101, the correct answer uses "being". Can anyone explain when it is ok to use "being"? 1. Sentences containing being are often incorrect on GMAT but not always. 2. Mark a choice as questionable, but do not discard it on grounds of use of &q...
- by stormier
Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: when is it appropriate to use "being" in sc questi
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1315
Hi all, pg 242: #176. As x increases from 165 to 166, which of the following must increase? (answer is i and ii) i. 2x-5 ii. 1- 1/x iii. 1/ x^2 - x (i) 2x - 5 will increase when x increases for all x (ii) 1/x will decrease when x increases for all x >0 (for example - as x goes from 1 to 2, 1/x goes...
- by stormier
Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:42 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Help with OG Problems
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3690
Hi all, pg 214: # 89. If s is the product of two integers from 100 to 200 inclusive and t is the product of integers between 100 and 201 inclusive. What is 1/s + 1/t in terms of t? (answer is 202/t) I think you may have mistyped the word two. I think, the question says the following s = 100.101.102...
- by stormier
Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:33 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Help with OG Problems
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3690
Hi Stormier Whats your take on my progress. GMATPrep 700 GMATPowerprep 700 KAPLAN 550 670 570 630 Manhattan 640 600 Princeton 710 720 Veritas 610 Knewton 630 Like you, I too am working and hardly have any time. Many a times I give 2 tests on weekends. My exams are 10 days away and I am not sure if ...
- by stormier
Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:15 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 720 (49Q,38V, AWA 5.5) and I've had it with the snow !!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6867
Can you please explain this further? How do you know that the values repeat? I tried finding the difference, but there's no consistency or pattern.. an = a(n-4) => a5 = a(5-4) = a1 a9=a(9-4)=a5=a1 similarly; a1=a5=a9=a13=....a93=a97 = 2 a2=a6=a10=.....=a94 = -3 a3=a7=a11=... =a95 = 5 a4=a8=a12=.......
- by stormier
Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:39 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Infinite Sequence
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3008
students and newspapers
3. In a college of 300 students, every student reads 5 newspapers and every newspaper is read by 60 students. The number of newspaper is:
(A) at least 30
(B) at most 20
(C) exactly 25
(D) exactly 20
(E) none of these
- by stormier
Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:10 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: students and newspapers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3794
A container contains 40 litres of milk. From this container 4 litres of milk was taken away and replaced by water. This process was repeated further 2 times. How much milk is contained by the container. This is what i thought: Milk water begin 40 0 1st 36 4 2nd 32 8 3rd 28 12 so the answer is 28. B...
- by stormier
Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:31 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Alligation?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2534
To the original poster - please format properly before posting - it causes a great deal of confusion Despite Beethoven's traditional status as the first great Romantic composer, he is considered by some musicologists to be the last great composer of the Classical era. Choice A Despite Beethoven's tr...
- by stormier
Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:37 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: mgmat sc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1890
Q: In an organisation, there are total 40 employees belonging to three different departments A , B , and C . Each department has more than 7 employees. The organisation decides to pay a bonus of $ 15,000, $ 10,000 and $ 7,000 to each of the employees of the departments A, B, C respectively . If the...
- by stormier
Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:44 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Word Problem
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1695
I present this question to sanju09 (the website-cited GMAT expert): for all future problems on the GMAT where standard deviation is involved, and they use the term normally distributed , am I always going to use the 34%, 14%, 2% bell curve to represent 1st, 2nd, and 3rd SD? The reason I ask is beca...
- by stormier
Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:25 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Standard Deviation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3787