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explanation plzzz..
To celebrate a colleague's retirement, the T coworkers in an office agreed to share equally the cost of a catered lunch. If the lunch costs a total of x dollars and S of the coworkers fail to pay their share, which of the following represents the additional ammount, in dollars, that each of the rema...
- by raptor84
Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:20 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: explanation plzzz..
- Replies: 5
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use of comma for 'which' and 'that'
hey guyz.. is it true that a comma should always precede the pronoun which?? For example, My car, which is red in color, is ten years old My car which is red in color is ten years old Are both the sentences above correct?? If its a rule that a comma should always precede the pronoun which, then can ...
- by raptor84
Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:46 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: use of comma for 'which' and 'that'
- Replies: 5
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explanation plzz..
Guests at a recent party ate a total of fifteen hamburgers. Each guest who was neither a student nor a vegetarian ate exactly one hamburger. No hamburger was eaten by any guest who was a student, a vegetarian, or both. If half of the guests were vegetarians, how many guests attended the party? (1) T...
- by raptor84
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:30 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: explanation plzz..
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1322
explanation plzz..
An oil field prospector and developer reported a large oil deposit in southwestern Texas. As a result, a large oil and gas company purchased the field with the intention of drilling oil wells in the area soon afterwards. However, the company found that what had been reported to be a large oil deposi...
- by raptor84
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:11 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: explanation plzz..
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2080
IMO its E.
Take the number 11. This cant be expressed as a sum of two +ve prime numbers right.
So E.
Whats the OA?
- by raptor84
Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:10 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: OG Quantitative (Green) #86
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1350
backsolving.... let number of children be 16. Boys = Girls = 8 Now number of ways 3 children can be selected is 3C16 = 16*15*14/3*2*1 = 8*5*14 Now the number of ways 3 boys can be selected from the 8 boys is = 8*7*6/3*2*1 = 8*7 Therefore the probability that 3 children selected from the total would ...
- by raptor84
Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:07 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Probability - class of children
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2089
explanation plzzz..
This has been discussed before. need explanation why option A is right 222. By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information. (A) enabling it to ...
- by raptor84
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:15 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: explanation plzzz..
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1172
Option A uses a broad term Entertainment and mentions nothing about theaters. How do we assume that Entertainment crowd is a Theater going oriented crowd??
Any thoughts on this...
- by raptor84
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:01 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: explanation plzz..
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3537
explanation plzz..
This was discussed a few posts back..but i just cant understand how the OA is right. Lightbox, Inc., owns almost all of the movie theaters in Washington County and has announced plans to double the number of movie screens it has in the county within five years. Yet attendance at Lightbox’s theaters ...
- by raptor84
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:00 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: explanation plzz..
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3537
Option A uses a broad term Entertainment and mentions nothing about theaters. How do we assume that Entertainment crowd is a Theater going oriented crowd??
Any thoughts on this...
- by raptor84
Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:57 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Lightbox, Inc.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2988
Paper based
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft will orbit the asteroid Eros for a year, slowly moving closer to the surface of the object to make ever more precise measurements that scientists hope will enable them to understand how the solar system formed some four billion years ago. A. to ma...
- by raptor84
Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:18 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Paper based
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7744
explanation plzz
In order to raise revenue, the federal government planned a tax amnesty program that allows tax delinquents to pay all owed tax without added financial penalty. However, economists projected that the federal government would collect a far lower percentage of total tax owed by delinquents than did st...
- by raptor84
Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:13 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: explanation plzz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2015
Explanation Plzz
Electronic computer chips made of tiny silicon wafers now regularly contain millions of electronic switches. Unfortunately, electronic switches that are this small cannot withstand intense radiation. Micro-Mechanics plans to produce a chip that, because it uses only microscopic mechanical switches, ...
- by raptor84
Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:43 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Explanation Plzz
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4937
source is GMAT Paper Tests...i am doubtful whether all the OA's of the GMAT paper tests are right...anyone else feel the same??
- by raptor84
Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Explanation plzzz
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3507
Explanation Plzz
Educational Theorist: Recent editorials have called for limits on the amount of homework assigned to children. They point out that free-time activities play an important role in childhood development and that large amounts of homework reduce children’s free time, hindering their development. But the...
- by raptor84
Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:16 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Explanation Plzz
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1584