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Hello, First of all, thanks to all of the admission consultants who take the time to post on this forum...you provide some great information on the process! I'm a 26-year-old male looking to apply to b-school this fall for entry to a full time program in the fall of '09. A little about my background...
- by mschling52
Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:51 pm- Forum: Ask an MBA Admissions Consultant
- Topic: Profile evaluation request
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1979
When you multiply decimals together, the product will have as many digits to the right of the decimal as do the factors combined. For example, .2 * .2 = .04 because the two factors each have 1 digit to the right of the decimal. Therefore, the product will have 1+1 = 2 digits to the right. Similarly,...
- by mschling52
Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:43 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: easy maths question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1555
I believe its A...p-1. If a number is prime, its only factors are 1 and itself. Therefore, if p is a prime, any number less p will not be a factor of p. So, each of the p-1 integers less than p will have no factor in common with p other than 1, which implies that f(p) = p-1. As an example, consider ...
- by mschling52
Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:39 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Gmat Prep: function f
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1834
I think it's B. The passage says copying is done by people with no serious interest in the software. Therefore, we can conclude that people who would otherwise not buy the software are the ones doing the copying. This is not a revenue loss to the industry b/c these people would not spend money to ob...
- by mschling52
Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:16 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Section - 2 Problem - 9
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1953
Statement (1) tells us that x is an odd number (has remainder of 1 when divided by 2) and that x is divisible by 3. If you list out the odd multiples of 3 you will see that they all have a remainder of 3 when divided by 6... 3,9,15,21,27,..... Therefore, we know that x will have a remainder of 3 whe...
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:09 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: DS Remainder
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1519
From the definition of the function,
5* = (1/1)(1/2)(1/3)(1/4)(1/5)
4* = (1/1)(1/2)(1/3)(1/4)
so, dividing 5* by 4*, all the fractions in the numerator cancel out with equal fractions in the denominator except for 1/5.
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:36 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: 6
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1863
width of picture = x length of picture = 2x width of picture+border = x+4 (2 inches on each end) length of picture+border = 2x+4 (2 inches on each end) If you draw this out it will be easier to visualize, but the area of the border alone is given as 196. This is also equal to the area of the picture...
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:32 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: 4
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3106
I agree with E for this one. Statement (1) tells us the ratio of pens, pencils, and pads that each staff member received, but there is no way to tell how many staff members there actually are. Statement (2) tells us that 18 pens, 27 pencils, and 36 pads were distribued. Note that the overall total i...
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:22 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: q4
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5130
When you raise a number to a negative exponent, it is equivalent to taking the recirpocal of the number and raising it to the opposite of the negative exponent. In other words... 2^(-3) = 1/(2^3) = 1/8. Using this, (3^-(x+y))/(3^-(x-y)) can be written as (3^(x-y))/(3^(x+y)) When different powers of ...
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:06 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: q3
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1482
Since she spent no time doing two activities at once, the question stem lets us set up the equation c+e+p = 240 where c = minutes in class, e = minutes using email, and p = minutes on phone. Statement (1) gives us another equation... c = 0.90e. We can plug this into the original equation to get 0.90...
- by mschling52
Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:55 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: q5
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1577
Not sure there is really a shortcut...at least I don't see one immediately. You could factor out 5^12, giving you (5^12)(1+5+25) = 31(5^12) Then, I expressed 5^12 = 25^6 = 625^3. From there I multiplied out 625*625*625 and multiplied the result by 31. This does take a minute or two to do by hand, so...
- by mschling52
Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:38 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: quickest way to solve..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1374
I think this one is E. The x's don't cancel out becuase they are not necessarily the same number.... X1970 does not equal X1980 and, therefore, they cannot be cancelled out. We can't solve this even with both statements becuase we don't know anything about the median income in country X. So, even th...
- by mschling52
Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:59 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Median decrease
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2418
I think this one is B - X^3=27. As you go through the inequalities, think about which values of x will satisfy them and then imagine plotting these x values on a number line. X^4>1...for this equation, raising a negative number to an even power will make the number positive. For example, (-2)^4 = 16...
- by mschling52
Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:50 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT prep
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2199
I think this one is B - Statement (2) alone sufficient. Think of this as a venn diagram with two overlapping circles. There are students who study Japanese, students who study French and students who study both. We are told that the students who study both represent 4% of the overall French students...
- by mschling52
Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:31 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMAT Prep Japanese
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1672
I'd say it's A - I Only. From the question, we know that the sum of the 15 prices must be $2,250,000 and that 8th price (when prices arranged from lowest to highest) must be $130,000. So, the first 7 prices must all be less than or equal to $130,000. Statement I - the most money we can get out of th...
- by mschling52
Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:13 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT prep homes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1703