If one of the books cost $1.50, and the other two combined cost $3.00, try different values for B2 and B3 and see what the median is in each case: B1 = $1.50, B2 = $1.50, B3 = $1.50 median = $1.50 B1 = $1.50, B2 = $1.00, B3 = $2.00 median = $1.50 B1 = $1.50, B2 = $0.01, B3 = $2.99 median = $1.50 No ...

The problem with "although never sighted at" really comes down to bad parallelism. The word "although" means there's a contrast, which means the two things that are contrasted must be parallel. In C, the first part of the contrast is "appear on the surface of the sun..."...

Not many lessons to take away from this question. The use of the pronoun "it" is not appropriate in this sentence. In fact, all of the answer choices are wrong for one reason or another. Whoever wrote this question does not have a good grasp on the English language, as there is a bad idiom...

On every verbal question, there is 1 right answer and 4 wrong answers. No such thing as a less good right answer. On Reading Comprehension, difficult wrong answers are often wrong because just one word in that choice does not match the information in the passage. On Sentence Correction, clarity and ...

What's the source for this problem? I disagree with the answer. Number 2 is absolutely correct. The idiom is "have confidence in." The idiom in 3 is fine, but it is incorrect to follow "the firm" with "to add back." 1 would be correct if it said "The market is conf...

The first issue you can tackle on this problem is the correct way to construct an idiom using "allow." "allow X" and "allow for X" are both good idioms. "allow that," on the other hand, is not correct. so you can eliminate (D). Similarly, "allow X to be p...