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OA is B

What is regarded as X and Y?
Speed limit.

Hence I think speed limit should be modified.

I dont understand, how 'measure' is an appositive for 'speedlimit'

by schumi_gmat

Mon May 28, 2012 1:23 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Speed limit - long one!
Replies: 282
Views: 109733

Would someone please provide a concise breakdown of this problem. I am having a hard time understanding. Based on the question stem I don't get any of the answers, nor do I follow the explanations listed here or especially in the back of the OG. My process.... N= 100 ----- (300-100)/2 100(100+1) = ...

by schumi_gmat

Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Real GMAT question
Replies: 7
Views: 4096

96 = 2^5 * 3

10p/96 = 2*5*p/96

for above equation to be an integer p = 2^4 *3

There are 2 prime factors - 2 and 3

by schumi_gmat

Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:49 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Number prop
Replies: 3
Views: 1617

Medical researcher: As expected, records covering the last four years often major hospitals indicate that babies born prematurely were more likely to have low birth weights and to suffer from health problems than were babies not born prematurely. These records also indicate that mothers who had rec...

by schumi_gmat

Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:17 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Premature Babies
Replies: 15
Views: 5303

Hey everyone, Here’s the LAST question in Knewton’s Verbal Challenge. Once you’ve looked it over, reply to this thread with your answer and an explanation for how you got it. I'll choose the best explanation at 11 pm EST tonight, and the daily winner will get free access to the Beat the GMAT ...

by schumi_gmat

Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:33 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Knewton Challenge, 1/25/11 (Eucbacteria)
Replies: 26
Views: 6708

diaca wrote:So, always for an expression such as x*(x-1)=x, in which I have an x multiplying in both sides, Is it always wrong to cancel the x?

To divide by x, x should not be equal to 0.

so in this case you cannot divide by x in condition (i)

by schumi_gmat

Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:26 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: What is the value of x*?
Replies: 29
Views: 13514

Max Weber claimed that the traditions that theodicean societies, civilizations in which people feel a need to reconcile the imperfections of the world with a "perfect" divinity, develop are more likely to result in religious adherence than are those that non-theodicean societies develop. (...

by schumi_gmat

Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:40 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Knewton Challenge, 1/21/11 (Max Weber)
Replies: 24
Views: 7220

Unlike a single-payer health insurance system, in which the government or a government-related source pays for all services using a single pool of money, employers are largely depended on in the American healthcare system to provide health insurance. (A) employers are largely depended on in the Amer...

by schumi_gmat

Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:46 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Knewton Challenge, 1/20/11 (Single-Payer Insurance)
Replies: 19
Views: 4733

The idiom is X rather than Y, where X and Y are parallel.

here Y = (To) face and hence X should be to retire

by schumi_gmat

Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:44 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: OG Verbal Review SC #39 Retiring Doctors
Replies: 9
Views: 6920

IF GCF of z and 12 is 3 means that z is not a multiple of 2 and hence cannot be divisible by 6.

IMO A

by schumi_gmat

Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:15 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Greatest common factor
Replies: 6
Views: 1655

st 2] When X+Y is divided by y, the remainder is 4 X/Y + Y/Y gives 4 as the remainder. Since Y/Y yeilds 0 as the remainder, the entire 4 must have been yeilded from X/Y. Hence B IMO E 1. is not suff 2. x=4, y=9, then x+y/y yileds 4 and x/y yields 0 remainder x= 13, y=9, then 22/9 yields 4 and x/y y...

by schumi_gmat

Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:48 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: number system DS
Replies: 4
Views: 1418

If m, n, p, and q are distinct integers, are they consecutive? (1) q-m=3 (2) m<n<q and m<p<q OA is C . [spoiler]My answer is E because we don't have any limitation on the integers: even if we consider 1 and 2 together, all we know is that q is the largest, and m is the smallest. consider the list m...

by schumi_gmat

Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:05 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: consecutive integers
Replies: 4
Views: 1103

A is sufficient everbody agrees

B I was thinking that it was J raise to J and not sqr(J).

J^J = J^0 implies J=0.

when we resubstitute, 0^0 is indeterminate.

Hence A

Good Problem !!

by schumi_gmat

Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:58 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: integers
Replies: 11
Views: 2082

I agree with kstv,

All numbers used are real numbers on GMAT

by schumi_gmat

Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:48 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Is x>y?
Replies: 3
Views: 1243

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:Everyone seems to be making a big assumption!

Do your proofs hold true if a and b are non-integers?
Hello Stuart,

How can we test this for fractions?

Thanks

by schumi_gmat

Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: what is the best way to solve such problems?
Replies: 7
Views: 1930