Congrats on your score! I'm glad to hear about your success and story with the GMAT, I got a devastating 570 a month ago while my target is 710, your story gives me hope that it is possible to reach this target

congrats on your score!

I'd love to read you full debrief. I Also tend to score higher in verbal than quant, but have no reached the 41 level in verbal, so I'd be interested to learn about your verbal strategy!

Definitely prime factorization! First, it's easiest to see how you can factor if you write both exponential expressions with the same base: 4^17 - 2^28 = (2^2)^17 - 2^28 = 2^34 - 2^28 Both 2^34 and 2^28 are divisible by 2^28, so we can factor that out: 2^34 - 2^28 = 2^28 * ( 2^6 - 1) Now, the expre...