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I Got a Man!Brian@VeritasPrep wrote:Hey Kevin,
(Author's note, completely unrelated: since this question asks for the smallest "positive k", bonus points for anyone who can tell me the name of a song or album released by the recording artist "Positive K")
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- by tarn151
Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:38 pm- Forum: GMAT Math
- Topic: Beat the gmat community! help me !
- Replies: 5
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So you say that we must pick 12 numbers. Well, how about this set of 12 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14]? Lets take a look at the sum of the first 10 numbers. We get 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10 = 55, so we have an odd number. Yes, those numbers give you an odd sum, but if you stop picking numbers t...
- by tarn151
Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:08 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Hard number problem - princeton bin 4
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5814
I'm actually not sure why that 1st interpretation is correct, it was just the first thing that came to my mind when I read the question. Given that both interpretations are valid, this question wouldn't make it to the actual GMAT. Stuart, I fully agree that this question couldn't make it to the GMA...
- by tarn151
Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:31 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Hard number problem - princeton bin 4
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5814
? I did not understand. Any one can be more didatic? :cry: MTeles, though I agree with the pro's on here that this is a bad question and lacks a few points, here is how to answer this one. So I figured this one out... it's definitely a tough one and I wouldn't recommend trying to spend time to solv...
- by tarn151
Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:12 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Standard deviation and mean
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7960
nailyad, I understand your logic for number 5... the square root of any negative number is imaginary. My question is, how would you remove 4 as a possiblity? With x as 4, you would get: a) sqrt(1-(sqrt(2- 2)) OR b) sqrt(1-(sqrt(2- (-2)) (Remeber that a square root can be the positive or negative) In...
- by tarn151
Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:40 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: real number problem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4707