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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