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Conditional Verb - E-gmat

Question: If insurance companies had accurate information, obtainable from genetic tests of the future, then someone who was likely to get ill would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in premium. I thought since if clause is in past perfect tense (had), then clause should be would have paid But th...

by sparkles3144

Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:06 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Conditional Verb - E-gmat
Replies: 7
Views: 4557

Planting Seeds. Mangoosh Question

Sue planted 4 times as many apple seeds as she planted orange seeds. 15 percent of the apple seeds grew into trees, and 10 percent of the orange seeds grew into trees. If a total of 420 apple trees and orange trees grew from the seeds, how many orange seeds did Sue plant? A. 540 B. 600 C. 660 D. 720...

by sparkles3144

Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:56 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Planting Seeds. Mangoosh Question
Replies: 3
Views: 4848

E. The average pay for jobs in the city is currently lower than it is for jobs in the suburbs surrounding the city. The answer is not E because what happens in suburbs surrounding cities does not effect the city and is not related to what Mayor's critics are not talking about. They are concerned abo...

by sparkles3144

Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:50 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Experts pls help : Why not E??
Replies: 1
Views: 1317

How to improve verbal score?

I took GMAT before. I took three months break from school and work and studied. My GMAT score is 600. I cancelled it. My test scores: Manhattan GMAT Prep: 660 GMAT Prep 1: 640 GMAT Prep 2: 690 GMAT Prep 3: 640 GMAT Prep 4: 700 I didn't take these test twice. Every time, the questions were new. I don...

by sparkles3144

Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:04 pm
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: How to improve verbal score?
Replies: 3
Views: 4723

OG Parallelism

The normative model of strategic decision-making suggests that executives examine a firm’s external environment and internal conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria they derive from these analyses, can decide on a strategy. A. conditions, and in using the set of objective criteria t...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:42 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: OG Parallelism
Replies: 3
Views: 1502

"The numbers of" is always wrong. You can say that it is a wrong phrase/idiom. The number of -> Singular A number of -> Plural The numbers of is not always wrong. I did come across it in Kaplan, Manhattan and Official sources. I researched after I came across your reply. http://www.manhat...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:37 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: The numbers of women is singular or plural?
Replies: 10
Views: 4448

Difference between independently from and independent of

Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem of mammalian evolution rather than developing independently from a common ancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago. (A) rather than developing independently fr...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 5:54 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Difference between independently from and independent of
Replies: 2
Views: 3947

Conditional - Unless

A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures. (A) if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify (B) unless there will be another doctor to testify (C) without another doctorâ€...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 5:09 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Conditional - Unless
Replies: 1
Views: 1383

Found throughout Central and South America, sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs and sleep fifteen hours a day, moving infrequently enough that two species of algae grow on its coat and between its toes. Its is singular. So, we need sloth in the sentence not sloths. Eliminate A, B, and C. (A...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:24 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: Need help on this SC
Replies: 4
Views: 4733

New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions. This is about parallelism. We have list of nouns. They are reversals...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:20 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: Need help on this SC
Replies: 4
Views: 4733

If believed was used instead of believe, you could have used would. However, in the sentence believe is used so you need to use will.

Hope it helped!

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:00 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Will or would
Replies: 4
Views: 1447

Is n an even integer?
(1) 3n is an even integer.
Insufficient.
If n = 2, then 3n = 6
If n = 2/3, then 3n = 2

(2) n/2 is not an integer
If n/2 is not an integer then n cannot be an even integer.

Answer B

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:06 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Is n an even integer?
Replies: 1
Views: 1169

The public's widespread belief in the existence of UFOs and their general curiosity about extraterrestrial life has generated considerable interest in science fiction. A. UFOs and their general curiosity about extraterrestrial life has Here, their is refering to public. It is wrong. Public is singul...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:04 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: verb - tense
Replies: 1
Views: 1507

The numbers of women is singular or plural?

I was doing couple of GMATPREP problems and I came across following question. My question is the numbers of women is singular or plural? The number of is singular. Is it different for the numbers of? Thanks! A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by ...

by sparkles3144

Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:50 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: The numbers of women is singular or plural?
Replies: 10
Views: 4448

Challenges faced by HP - Source: Aristotle RC Grail

During the late 1990s, HP, the second largest computer manufacturer in the world, faced major challenges in an increasingly competitive market. In 1998, while HP’s revenues grew by just 3%, competitor Dell’s rose by 38%. Also HP’s share price remained more or less stagnant while competitor IBM...

by sparkles3144

Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:42 pm
Forum: Reading Comprehension
Topic: Challenges faced by HP - Source: Aristotle RC Grail
Replies: 2
Views: 2417