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you guys pretty much have this one covered. BY THE WAY: this is irrelevant to this particular problem, but you should also know that an equilateral triangle also qualifies as "isosceles". (this is so for the same reason that squares are still rectangles.) so let's pretend that statement (...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:50 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Isoceles Triangle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1816
Here's the OE from Kaplan 800: You have to make a comparison between early medieval monasteries and modern libraries, while also taking into account a modifier for those early medieval monasteries. The modifier, "while clearly less accessible to outsiders," must come directly next to early...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:32 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Monastries
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3636
some historians believe
Some historians believe that during no other deployment did Enterprise, one of the US navy's largest battleships, deliver in a single blow such a stunning reversal to an enemy's fortune as during its famous voyage of June 4, 1942 . (A) during its famous voyage of June 4, 1942 (B) had its famous voya...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:12 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: some historians believe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1523
while all countries face
While all countries face similar greenhouse gas emissions problems, the economic policies and regulatory code of each country determine the requirements for those industries emitting carbon dioxide, as well as the consequences for violating the guidelines. (A) all countries face similar greenhouse g...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:09 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: while all countries face
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1191
a broken shard of glass
A broken shard of glass found in the laboratory of the famed physicist Alhazen has a polished surface that separates out the green and blue spectrums of white light, a key characteristic of a dispersive prism, which separates white light into all its constituent spectral components. Scientific histo...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:52 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: a broken shard of glass
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2218
in the early 1960's
In the early 1960's, the number of cocoa plants in Colombia began to decline. There are two plausible explanations for the decline: lack of proper nutrients, possibly due to poor soil, or destruction by people. Of these two, lack of proper nutrients is the more likely, since a concurrent decline in ...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:44 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: in the early 1960's
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2239
john mercer brooke
John Mercer Brooke created a sounding apparatus that is essentially a rod, connected to a string, that strikes the sea floor, causing the tension on the string to slack and a ball to fall to the ground; the rod, released from its weight, is easily drawn up, bringing with it a cup-like apparatus, in ...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: john mercer brooke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1243
explorers of the abandoned city of ambrose, kansas
Explorers of the abandoned city of Ambrose, Kansas, discovered a pattern of obliterated streets and collapsed buildings characteristic of tornado damage. Engineers have hypothesized that the destruction was caused by a tornado that struck Kansas in 1976. Which of the following, if true, most strongl...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:34 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: explorers of the abandoned city of ambrose, kansas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5136
researchers have found
Researchers have found that current generations of bees in larval stages generally have a larger penchant for dwelling near dull-looking flowers and plant leaves than their parents and adult counterparts and that the reason for this change lies in the increasing use of pesticides on the vivid flower...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:21 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: researchers have found
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1341
at the end of a year, the sum of their lengths shouldn't be greater than 15% of what it was at the start of the year. if it is greater than 15%, then they're unstable.
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:07 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: a fish colony
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1193
A fish colony is called "unstable" if, at the end of the year, the total increase in the sum of the lengths of the fish in the colony is more than 15% greater than the sum of the lengths of the fish at the beginning of the year. In a colony of three fish, the length of the longest fish in...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:05 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: a fish colony
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1193
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:57 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: factors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1138
i fell for the trap by opting for D.
Knewton: In any list of 12 consecutive even integers, the sum of the first 3 will be 54 less than the sum of the last three.
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:55 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: average
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1186
a fish colony
A fish colony is called "unstable" if, at the end of the year, the total increase in the sum of the lengths of the fish in the colony is more than 15% greater than the sum of the lengths of the fish at the beginning of the year. In a colony of three fish, the length of the longest fish inc...
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:49 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: a fish colony
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1193
factors
If n is the product of the integers from 1 to 70, inclusive, what is the greatest integer m for which 7^m is a factor of n/7^2?
(A) 2
(B) 7
(C) 9
(D) 11
(E) 14
OA: [spoiler]C: 9[/spoiler]
Source: Knewton
- by rahul.s
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:38 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: factors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1192