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Hey Chitturi, That's some tricky thinking on your part! The good news is that the GMAT will very seldom be that tricky. They could play some game talking about "90% of the world's waters froze," in which case you wouldn't know if the rivers in question were in the 90% or the 10%. But in t...
- by Chitturi
Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:27 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Doubt Clarification:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1675
- by Chitturi
Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:13 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Doubt Clarification:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1675
Doubt Clarification:
When it gets cold and vegetation begins to become sparse, usually at the end of October, Canadian black bears go into hibernation. If an extended unseasonal cold snap arrives, however, the bears can go into hibernation as much as a full month earlier. Because bears are the major predator of salmon, ...
- by Chitturi
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:51 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Doubt Clarification:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1675
Difficult Question. Co Ordinate Geometry
Lines a and b have different y-intercepts. When line a is reflected around the y-axis, is its reflection parallel to line b?
(1) Line a is perpendicular to line b.
(2) The slope of line b > 0.
- by Chitturi
Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:52 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Difficult Question. Co Ordinate Geometry
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3269
Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home at the end of each day rather than be confined to a hotel.
What is the role of "BE" in the sentence.
Plz give some examples.
Regards
Ratnakar Chitturi.
- by Chitturi
Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: "instead of" and "rather than"!---Judge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1251
OG 13, SC 37. Dressed as a man and using the name ..........
Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff , Deborah Sampson, the first woman to draw a soldier’s pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve. OG 13, SC 37; The highlighte...
- by Chitturi
Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG 13, SC 37. Dressed as a man and using the name ..........
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2122
IcemanThe Iceman wrote:"few" is preferred because the comparative on the GMAT almost always requires "than", as in "fewer than". Also, to use fewer you must have a comparison but there is none here.
Could you elaborate.
- by Chitturi
Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Few or Fewer?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1387
Why can't the intended meaning be " THe principal sought for approval plan ......... , with out the opposition of others " The principal wants the plan to be approved, without the opposition of others. --------------------------------------------------------------- The principal has sought...
- by Chitturi
Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:34 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The principal has sought approval for her plan
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4671
- by Chitturi
Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:19 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: automation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2314
The bags are not inflated to make the passenger terrify.
Smoke would appear when the bag inflated and make the passenger terrify.
- by Chitturi
Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Air bags
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1912
A small team of Croatian spelunkers recently discovered the world's deepest known hole, a 1693-foot pit that is over 200 feet deeper than the previous record-holder.
In Option D "any " doesn't make clear comparison.
" The " clearly refers the specific previous records
- by Chitturi
Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:20 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A good one. Try it!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1539
Dear brent " The rate of fatty food consumption in France and US is about the same " Plz tell, whether the above sentence is correct ? Please explain why the rate of fatty food consumed makes no sense. My thinking is "fatty foods are consumed and that consumption is at a rate. " ...
- by Chitturi
Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:29 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: People in France consume fatty food.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3721
IMO B logic? The only logical answer choices are A and B. A is surely a GMAT trap because A looks so right. But, there are two flaws in it: 1) the use of it 2) The use of VERBing to show a consequence. Because of the above two, A interprets as: Improved efficiency stimulates demand and boost consum...
- by Chitturi
Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:51 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Harvested trees
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1631
This is a difficult parallelism sentence because you can't just look at whether the words end in "-ing" or not. After all, "downturns" is not underlined so we have to keep it, and 'loosening" is in some form or another in every answer choice, so we have to keep it. Oh no! H...
- by Chitturi
Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:53 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The economic forces that may affect
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5962
hi Kasia,
Plz, can u explain more about 'do' and 'have'.
I think both of them are correct.
Regards
Ratnakar Chitturi.
- by Chitturi
Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:24 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: grammatical rule
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1669