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GMAT Prep DS question.

If ax + b = 0, is x > 0?

a. a + b > 0
b. a – b > 0


Please provide explanation. OA to follow.

by mridula

Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:02 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: GMAT Prep DS question.
Replies: 3
Views: 1415

GMAT Prep DS question.

If ax + b = 0, is x > 0?

a. a + b > 0
b. a – b > 0


Please provide explanation. OA to follow.

by mridula

Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:01 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: GMAT Prep DS question.
Replies: 2
Views: 1421

Teenagers are often priced out of the labor market by the government-mandated minimum-wage level because employers cannot afford to pay that much for extra help. Therefore, if Congress institutes a subminimum wage, a new lower legal wage for teenagers, the teenage unemployment rate, which has been ...

by mridula

Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:53 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: teenagers doomed!
Replies: 10
Views: 4907

Hi, Can someone explain these three SC Questions to me? If you could help me by breaking them down and creating 2-3 splits that would be very beneficial. Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act enables the United States Trade Representative to single out a country as an unfair...

by mridula

Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:39 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: 3 GMAT PREP Questions
Replies: 10
Views: 5373

1. Sharks have a higher ratio of cartilage mass to body mass than any other organism. They also have a greater resistance to cancer than any other organism. Shark cartilage contains a substance that inhibits tumor growth by stopping the development of a new blood network. In the past 20 years, none...

by mridula

Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:39 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Sharks have a higher ratio of cartilage mass to body mass
Replies: 13
Views: 4177

maihuna wrote:
pandeyvineet24 wrote:IMO B. Physician partially agrees with the one of the claims, but she adds an another piece of evidence to mitigate the concerns of the patient.
No evidence has been given, glue example is just an analogy, SO A should be OK.
Agree with A

by mridula

Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:24 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Mother-infant bonding
Replies: 10
Views: 3926

A low-pressure weather system is approaching Plainville; rainfall results from about 70 percent of such systems in the Plainville area. Moreover, the current season, spring, is the time of year in which thundershowers, which sometimes result from low-pressure systems, are most likely to occur in Pl...

by mridula

Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:20 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: thundershowers
Replies: 11
Views: 3473

Those who think with a hierarchical mentality strive for situations in which their side is dominant and the other side is submissive. In contrast, communal thinkers strive for parity among all sides. Therefore, achieving parity of nuclear weaponry between the East and the West is not enough for Wes...

by mridula

Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:01 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: hierarchical mentality
Replies: 10
Views: 3541

Question regarding GmatPrep

I took a GmatPrep test today. I finished all the sections and reviewed each question. Still, the status shows as "Unfinished" for the test and I am unable to look at the essays I had written too. Does anybody know why? :(

by mridula

Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:42 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Question regarding GmatPrep
Replies: 0
Views: 956

Hello , I felt confused as well though its simple i dunno why history : math is 2:3 but the right answer was 3:2 or 3\2 ?? why is that ?? Please explain Let History Students be 'H' Math Student 'M' English 'E' We have, E = 2H So, H=(1/2)E Similarly. E = 3M So, M = (1/3)E Ratio of History Students t...

by mridula

Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:06 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: Very simple ratio question
Replies: 3
Views: 2673

jnbimmer wrote:The conclusion is:

because of grade inflation, the honors degree goes to more than 50 percent of a graduating class?

Thanks
Why is B wrong?

by mridula

Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:59 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Replies: 5
Views: 1776

The correct answer must be choice E. We know that "each region receives a share of federal revenues equal to the share of the total population " of the Ditrama federation. We also know that Korvo's population increased in number (pop survey discussed in last sentence) and that, surprising...

by mridula

Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:34 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Korva population
Replies: 8
Views: 1935

OG rCs are pretty easy as compared to Manhattan GMATs...and on real test you will find questions that are similar to questions in Manhattan GMAT...{choices would be very close}... Use LSAT RC or 700-800 document of manhattan or KAplan 800 for RC ... you will find RC on real exam a piece of cake... ...

by mridula

Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:28 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: OG Vs Manhattan GMAT
Replies: 8
Views: 3471

OG Vs Manhattan GMAT

OK. I have my GMAT on 8th of January. I have been practicing out of OG. I did all the RCs from OG and I get like one in about 20 wrong, which I think is fine performance. I took GMAT Prep 1 and score 93th percentile in Verbal. Most of my RCs were right (maybe i got 1 wrong in total). But the problem...

by mridula

Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:37 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: OG Vs Manhattan GMAT
Replies: 8
Views: 3471

imperialhuntress wrote:(playing around in my mind how to even better write the sentence than the answers given, for example)
LOL! you are funny!!!
Congratulations though! :)

by mridula

Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:57 am
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: An even 700 (Math 45 Verbal 40) - MAD.
Replies: 3
Views: 3473