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Hey Ritz, Thanks a lot. I certainly benefited from your advice and I am sure any one else who read it would have benefited too. In short, you made a difference to my knowledge! Noticed that your target score is a 740 and hope you achieve it. Similar to HarvardDreaming, I wonder where you are dreamin...

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:00 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824

Ritz, Thank you for the message. But I wonder if there is a small typo here. Let me repeat and try to analyze what you said. > Here is an example. > Feb 1 is monday for 1979 > so going by my approach > Feb 1 in 1980 will be monday I don't get quite this. Going by your approach, I thought Feb 1 in 19...

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:04 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824

Thanks

Hey Ritz, Thanks a lot for that detailed explanation. By and large I feel comfortable with your step by step by approach. While I don't remember the exact question, with the knowledge given by you, I feel I am ready to go. How ever, I still have one question. You wrote, > PS: for any dates after the...

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:30 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824

Ritz,

Thanks. But I don't follow step 3 and 4. What is the the logic behind that?

Let us go from 1980 to 1981. Can you please explain how this works for one year?

Pete

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:57 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824

The question asked for the exact day - i.e. Monday vs. a Friday Also there are some months with 31 days while others with 30 days. Then non-leap year has February with 28 days? How do you calculate some thing over a multi year period, taking into account all those variations? I got beaten with this ...

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:01 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824

Tricky problem that seems easy

I have done the GMAT twice and both times encountered a problem like this which I could not answer. (Please note this may not be the exact problem but very similar) If today is Friday the 5th of November 1995, which day would be today + 1000 days? Now you have to take into account leap years and the...

by PN123

Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Tricky problem that seems easy
Replies: 15
Views: 3824