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Hi.. I'm prepping for SC at the moment and read this in a leading business journal, and want to know whether such a representation is correct: "The board did debate on it and were not pleased with it". I would have thought that it's wrong and that you could much rather say: "The board...

22. Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language, a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species. (A) Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes Those is incorrect. Subject-verb error since voc...

GMATGuruNY wrote: A negative fraction won't work in statement 1 because a negative fraction raised to an odd power gets bigger: (-1/2)^3 = -(1/8), and -1/8 > - 1/2.

So to satisfy both statements, 0 < a < 1. Sufficient.

The correct answer is C.

I recently came across this question, and I quite like it. Six mobsters have arrived at the theater for the premiere of the film “Goodbuddies.� One of the mobsters, Frankie, is an informer, and he's afraid that another member of his crew, Joey, is on to him. Frankie, wanting to keep Joey in his...

The answer is C. I made the decision plainly based on the fact that "interact among" sounded wrong.

Secondly, "interacted with themselves" implies that each member of the group interacted with himself or herself. And that's ridiculous.

I got to C, but used a different technique; testing numbers. Is X>K? = Y/N question (1) 2^x.2^k = 4 Possible value combinations for x & k that total to four include: x = 1, k = 1. Here x = k x = 0, k = 2. Here x < k x = 2, k = 0 . Here x > k As there are multiple possibilities for X>K, we can e...

IMO is E.

This is my explanation:
A. doesn't make any sense.
B. vague.
C. wrong tense. Second half of the sentence is acceptable, not the first.
D. wrong tense. Second half of the sentence is acceptable, not the first.
E. Grammatically correct.