tough value question

The fire department has two classes of employees, responders and administrators. The department requires a physical for each new employee, unless that employee has had a physical in the previous year or is an administrator. Last month, the fire department required physicals of 6 new employees. If 3/...

confusing one

A group of Republicans and Democrats was surveyed and each member was asked whether they liked apple pies or eclairs. 80% of the Republicans liked apple pie, 55% of the Democrats liked eclairs, and 20% of the Republicans who liked apple pie also liked eclairs. If the number of Republicans who liked ...

Im not sure if my solution takes into account all the possible cases, but given the time constraint on the GMAT, this is what I would have done about this problem: Let Set A be : 1,2,3,4,5 Let Set B be : 6,7,8,9,10 Then A+B will be : 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Note : Since the mean and median are equal fo...

speed distance time question

Train A left station T at 3:30 p.m. and traveled on straight tracks at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. Train B left station T on adjacent straight tracks in the same direction that train A traveled on. Train B left station T 40 minutes after train A, and traveled at a constant speed of 75 mil...

good question

According to recent research, a blindfolded person whose nostrils have been pinched so that smelling is impossible will have great difficulty in differentiating a bite of an apple from a bite of a raw potato. This clearly demonstrates that taste buds are not the only sense organs involved in determi...

Dear Rich and Brent,

The correct answer is in fact 280.
The question is a little ambiguous.

Thanks,
Rishi

Hi Mitch,

Thanks a lot for all the solutions that uve been posting so far!

I saw this question in a practice test I gave recently. Do you think it is reflective of the GMAT?
Are such questions asked in the actual thing or is it too vague/hard?

Regards,
Rishi