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Hi snehavenkat, In DS questions, when you're asked to find the "value" of something, the question is "really" asking if the value is consistent or inconsistent. In this DS question, Fact 1 tells you x + y = 139, so if you "plug" that into x + y + z = 180, then you CAN ...
- by Newaz111
Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:51 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency help
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Critical Reasoning
Studies in restaurants show that the tips left by customers who pay their bill in cash tend to be larger when the bill is presented on a tray that bears a credit-card logo. Consumer psychologists hypothesize that simply seeing a credit-card logo makes many credit-card holders willing to spend more b...
- by Newaz111
Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:19 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Critical Reasoning
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SC_Parallelism
I think the correct answer is 'A', instead of B. Answer B violates the parallelism as three items are not in parallel. Please help me out.... Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn an...
- by Newaz111
Sun Aug 25, 2019 8:26 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC_Parallelism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 760
SC_Parallelism
The explanation given for the correct answer is unclear to me. Please guide me. Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering he...
- by Newaz111
Sun Aug 25, 2019 8:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC_Parallelism
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- by Newaz111
Wed Jun 22, 2016 6:24 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Download GMAT questions with Expert solutions!
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SC
OG explanation is not clear to me...pls help me with this. Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not beg...
- by Newaz111
Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1291
Data sufficiency
In triangle PQR, the measure of angle P is 30° more than twice the measure of angle Q. What is the measure of angle R?
(1) PQ = QR
(2) The measure of angle P is 78°.
- by Newaz111
Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:27 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 1
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Data sufficiency
In the xy-plane, the sides of a certain rectangle are parallel to the axes. If one of the vertices of the rectangle is (-1,-2), what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
(1) One of the vertices of the rectangle is (2, -2).
(2) One of the vertices of the rectangle is (2, 3).
- by Newaz111
Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:03 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 2
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Data sufficiency
The sum of positive integers x and y is 77. What is the value of xy?
(1) x = y + 1
(2) x and y have the same tens digit.
I think the answer should be A. I can't figure it out, why A will not be the correct answer.
- by Newaz111
Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:46 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 2
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- by Newaz111
Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:03 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 10
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A certain university will select 1 of 7 candidates eligible to fill a position in the mathematics department and 2 of 10 candidates eligible to fill 2 identical positions in the computer science department. If none of the candidates is eligible for a position in both departments, how many different ...
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Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:58 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: probability
- Replies: 11
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- by Newaz111
Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:37 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 10
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Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:37 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
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- by Newaz111
Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:37 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 10
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- by Newaz111
Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:37 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2426