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Conditional Logic in GMAT
Despite the approach of winter, oil prices to industrial customers are exceptionally low this year and likely to remain so. Therefore, unless the winter is especially severe, the price of natural gas to industrial customers is also likely to remain low. Which of the following, if true, provides the ...
- by imskpwr
Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:53 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Conditional Logic in GMAT
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Inferences are NOT explicitly mentioned in the passage. Can an Inference be an answer to a SPECIFIC DETAIL BASED QUESTION? Or Does the answer of a Specific Detail based Question need to be EXPLICIT in the passage? Experts Opinions are Preferred. Typically a detail question will begin with the phras...
- by imskpwr
Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:08 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Inference vs Specific Details Based Questions
- Replies: 2
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Inference vs Specific Details Based Questions
Inferences are NOT explicitly mentioned in the passage.
Can an Inference be an answer to a SPECIFIC DETAIL BASED QUESTION?
Or
Does the answer of a Specific Detail based Question need to be EXPLICIT in the passage?
Experts Opinions are Preferred.
- by imskpwr
Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:44 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Inference vs Specific Details Based Questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1826
Like (concise) Vs Like (wordy)
Based on recent box office receipts, the public's appetite for documentary films, like nonfiction books , seems to be on the rise. a. like nonfiction books b. as nonfiction books c. as its interest in nonfiction books d. like their interest in nonfiction books e. like its interest in nonfiction book...
- by imskpwr
Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:03 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Like (concise) Vs Like (wordy)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1118
Vitamin XYZ has long been a favorite among health food enthusiasts. In a recent large study, those who took large amounts of vitamin XYZ daily for two years showed on average a 40 percent lower risk of heart disease than did members of a control groups. Researchers corrected for differences in rele...
- by imskpwr
Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:03 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR inference: ALL options wrong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1356
CR inference: ALL options wrong
Vitamin XYZ has long been a favorite among health food enthusiasts. In a recent large study, those who took large amounts of vitamin XYZ daily for two years showed on average a 40 percent lower risk of heart disease than did members of a control groups. Researchers corrected for differences in relev...
- by imskpwr
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:22 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR inference: ALL options wrong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1356
Yeah, that appears to be a reasonable understanding of how passages on the GMAT operate. It's also helpful to be primed to recognize that certain structural markers indicate that the author is about to present her own opinion, which will often contradict a notion that someone else has professed. Fo...
- by imskpwr
Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:56 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Expert's Help: Author's Opinion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2987
Sir,Mike@Magoosh wrote: I will add that it's very hard to make one-size-fits-all rules for the GMAT CR.
Mike
I am sorry, but my previous post was in fact about Reading Comprehension Passages.
However, the CR article you shared was quite useful.
- by imskpwr
Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:24 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Expert's Help: Author's Opinion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2987
Expert's Help: Author's Opinion
Can any expert share his or her views on the below understandings? I believe that ANY Conclusion presented in a passage MUST BE an OPINION of Author if no other group/person is mentioned. Further, the final Author's POV( Author's conclusion) is the MAIN IDEA. Believing in above points, I observe tha...
- by imskpwr
Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:28 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Expert's Help: Author's Opinion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2987
Your approach is correct, though you could streamline it a bit by ignoring the second committee, which doesn't matter here. We have 5C2 ways of picking the other two people on Michael's committee, and when Anthony is on that committee, we have 4 ways to pick the third person, so the answer is 4/5C2...
- by imskpwr
Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:09 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Approach is faulty: Experts please comment
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- Views: 1533
Approach is faulty: Experts please comment
Anthony and Michael sit on the six-member board of directors for company X. If the board is to be split up into 2 three-person subcommittees, what percent of all the possible subcommittees that include Michael also include Anthony? 
 A. 20% 
B. 30% 
C. 40% 
D. 50% 
E. 60% My approach: Mich...
- by imskpwr
Fri Jul 21, 2017 7:22 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Approach is faulty: Experts please comment
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1533
Combination Grouping: Any expert please help
I think the answer to this Question is Wrong? Coach Miller is filling out the starting lineup for his indoor soccer team. There are 10 boys on th team, and he must assign 6 starters to the following positions: 1 goalkeeper, 2 on defense, 2 in midfield, and 1 forward. Only 2 of the boys can play goal...
- by imskpwr
Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:57 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Combination Grouping: Any expert please help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2150
Organization and Main Point of RC Passage
The number of women directors appointed to corporate boards in the United States has increased dramatically, but the ratio of female to male directors remains low. Although pressure to recruit women directors, unlike that to employ women in the general work force, does not derive from legislation, i...
- by imskpwr
Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:38 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Organization and Main Point of RC Passage
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Here's a real example: A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued pr...
- by imskpwr
Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:07 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Premise Validity in GMAT: Help required David Sir
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2448
I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. Are you proposing a scenario in which the above appears as part of the original argument and wondering if such a premise would be ironclad? Premise: Investors believe that the bank is going to fail Conclusion: Therefore, there will be a run on the bank Q:...
- by imskpwr
Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:52 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Premise Validity in GMAT: Help required David Sir
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2448