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BTW - you can find a longer explanation of this and some other operations stuff here: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pr ... ssary.html

And some more sample questions here:
http://www.testsandtutors.com/course/view.php/GMAT

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:45 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: Algebra - why is this wrong?
Replies: 3
Views: 1580

Inversion is not distributive, unlike multiplication. You cannot add the inverses, because 1/(1/x + 1/x) is not equal to (1/1/x+ 1/1/y)=(x+y) what you need to do is multiply by 1, in the form xy/(xy), to get xy/(y+x) Multiplication IS distributive; eg a(b + c) = ab + ac; this is probably why you are...

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:42 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: Algebra - why is this wrong?
Replies: 3
Views: 1580

You're welcome - the large exponents can be intimidating, but remember without a calculator, they're not going to make you really calculate very large numbers. There's usually a trick!

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:39 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: greatest prime factor
Replies: 7
Views: 2169

Think of it like a math problem. Odds of guessing wrong: once: 50% twice: 25% thrice: 12.5% You might be overthinking it. If you're guessing, you're going to get some wrong; you can't beat the odds unless you can make it a little better of a guess. 50/50 is not great odds; but practice, practice pra...

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: 50/50, I still get it wrong (sentence correction)
Replies: 1
Views: 2651

I don't, but good luck. Maybe a beer before the test would help next time :) (j/k, of course). I'm sure next time you won't be as nervous and will knock it out of the park!

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:31 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: My test results were disappointing.
Replies: 1
Views: 1157

I'm not sure; 10 questions is not a lot to get for free, but $19 isn't too much money to lose if not. If you'd like to try more free questions first, take a look at http://www.testsandtutors.com/course/view.php/GMAT

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:29 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: PrepForTests.com
Replies: 1
Views: 1393

I'm not sure if these are 'Applied' problems, but here are some good, worked, algebra problems to practice:

http://www.testsandtutors.com/course/qu ... anslations

Click 'help me' if you get stuck, to see how to solve the problem.

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:25 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: Algebra- Applied Problems
Replies: 1
Views: 4023

Each hour the train 10h, where h is the hour number.
hour 1: 10 hour 4: 100 hour 7: 280
hour 2: 30 hour 5: 150 hour 8: 360
hour 3: 60 hour 6: 210 hour 9: 450

It will take 9 hours. You can't simply use an integral, because the speed does not increase smoothly.

by praxis

Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:13 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: no intermediate stops
Replies: 1
Views: 1196

(2) is alone sufficient, but (1) is not.

(1) is not sufficient because 5^(k+1) > 3000 is equivalent to 5^k > 600 Which is not sufficient (2) is sufficient because 5^(k-1) = 5^k - 500 is equivalent to (1/5) * 5^k = 5^k - 500 and collecting terms we get 500 = (4/5) * 5^k 5^k = 2500/4, which is less than 1000. More data sufficiency questions

by praxis

Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:10 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Exponential question
Replies: 1
Views: 1026

at the first church he has N flowers -- which is doubled to 2N -- from which he offers P, leaving 2N-P repeat at the second church, -- double: 2( 2N-P) -- offer P: 2( 2N-P) - P repeat at third church, -- double: 2( 2( 2N-P ) - P) -- offer P: 2( 2( 2N-P ) - P) - P but he has none left! so, 2( 2( 2N-P...

by praxis

Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:02 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: oops! No flower
Replies: 3
Views: 1382

The trick is to factor out the subtraction...

2^34 - 2^28 = 2^6 * 2^28 - 2*28 = (2^6 - 1)*2^28

Now,

2^6 - 1 = 64 - 1 = 63 = 7*3*3

and the greatest prime factor is 7.

BTW, for some practice questions like this you can visit
http://www.testsandtutors.com/course/qu ... -and-Roots

by praxis

Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:48 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: greatest prime factor
Replies: 7
Views: 2169