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- by crimson2283
Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:41 pm- Forum: Admissions Success Stories
- Topic: Santa Clara MBA anyone?
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:35 am- Forum: Admissions Success Stories
- Topic: Santa Clara MBA anyone?
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- by crimson2283
Sun May 22, 2011 5:59 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: suffering
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SC Question from Beat the GMAT Practise set
High in the sky, soaring over the foothills that on hot, dry days look like brushed brown suede, the condor attains a majesty that is rare among birds in flight. High in the sky, soaring over the foothills that on hot, dry days look like brushed brown suede, the condor attains a majesty that is rar...
- by crimson2283
Fri May 06, 2011 11:31 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC Question from Beat the GMAT Practise set
- Replies: 8
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- by crimson2283
Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:50 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Finally done - 710 (Q48, V40, AWA 5.5)
- Replies: 18
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Arrangement PS
Ben needs to form a committee of 3 from a group of 8 engineers to study design improvements for a product. If two of the engineers are too inexperienced to serve together on the committee, how many different committees can Ben form? 20 30 50 56 336 Form a committee of 3 from 8 - 8C3 = 56 Exclude gro...
- by crimson2283
Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:16 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Arrangement PS
- Replies: 3
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Please share your tips to solve CR qns that use percentages
Can anyone share tips to solve problems that use percentages/ averages/ numbers in general.
What is the BEST approach to solve these questions? - Categories - Assumptions, Strengthen, Weaken.
- by crimson2283
Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:12 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Please share your tips to solve CR qns that use percentages
- Replies: 3
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For this question, is it okay to approach it like this? Since slope = y intercept/x intercept, it means line k passes through (-1,6), which belongs to 2nd Quadrant - Sufficient Statement 2 doesn't give x- intercept's value, hence NOT sufficient. We don't need to know the rules - If a line has a posi...
- by crimson2283
Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:26 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMAT PREP TEST 1 Q10 - DS
- Replies: 13
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- by crimson2283
Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:58 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: MGMAT Qn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3093
MGMAT Qn
For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must be added into prices A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affor...
- by crimson2283
Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:00 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: MGMAT Qn
- Replies: 12
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OG 12th Edition Qn
Sixty percent of the members of a study group are women, and 45 percent of those women are lawyers. If one member of the study group is to be selected at random, what is the probability that the member selected is a woman lawyer? (A) 0.10 (B) 0.15 (C) 0.27 (D) 0.33 (E) 0.45 Out of 60 women if 45% ar...
- by crimson2283
Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:22 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: OG 12th Edition Qn
- Replies: 3
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@Night reader - Can you please explain this? in case you had between 6! +2 and 6!+6, inclusive , then there would be no factor here and one prime! if you had between 6! +2 and 6!+8, inclusive , there would be one prime and 8 firstly, definition of prime => not more than two factors 1 and the prime i...
- by crimson2283
Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:00 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Quant 2nd Edition pg. 131 # 144
- Replies: 5
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Overlapping sets (Experts please suggest)
Can anybody please explain the approach to solving problems in overlapping sets? It'd be great if we could discuss a few examples. I know of just one formula for such problems and I can solve such problems only when its straight forward :( P(A u B u C) : P(A) + P(B) + P(C) – P(A n B) – P(A n C) ...
- by crimson2283
Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:47 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Overlapping sets (Experts please suggest)
- Replies: 2
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PS Qn
The price of T.V set is increased by 40 % of the cost price and then decreased by 25% of the new price . On
selling, the profit for the dealer was Rs.1,000 . At what price was the T.V sold?
- by crimson2283
Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:24 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: PS Qn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1184
Very well explained. Thanks once again. Thanks so much. I get confused when a question uses inequalities. Can you please explain this? If - k^2 > 49, I thought k>7 or k>-7. Since k is an integer, I assumed k could be 8 and -6. But you say, k<-7 (which is correct as per the OA), please explain why. S...
- by crimson2283
Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:38 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: PS Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1247