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Hi Sushbis, yes you are right. It should be the same time and from the same point

by Viper83

Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:28 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Circular track
Replies: 3
Views: 2593

Circular track

2 cars drive in opposite direction around a circular track, starting at the same time. Car A drives at a speed of 3 km/h and car B drives at a speed of 1 km/h. The Track has a diameter of 4 km. After how long will the cars meet? I solved this questions the following way (please tell me whether my ap...

by Viper83

Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:43 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Circular track
Replies: 3
Views: 2593

Got it thanks! Could you also solve this without using the constant K? It cancels anyway...

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:25 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Rate of change
Replies: 5
Views: 1731

Hi Frankenstein,
Thanks for this. However, can you please expand your answer. I do not understand how you got from
ka1^2/2b to

a1 = a*sqrt(2) = 1.41

???

Thanks

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:44 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Rate of change
Replies: 5
Views: 1731

Rate of change

The rate of a certain chemical reaction is directly proportional to the square of the concentration of chemical A present and inversely proportional to the concentration of chemical B present. If the concentration of chemical B is increased by 100 percent, which of the following is closest to the pe...

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:25 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Rate of change
Replies: 5
Views: 1731

Thanks Anurag, so in this kind of question one should actually solve to get the answer since it is a quadratic equation?

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:08 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Car and time
Replies: 7
Views: 1611

rakes

A certain business produced x rakes each month from november to february and shipped x/2 at the rakes beginning of each month from march through october. The business paid no storage costs for the rakes from november through february, but it paid storage costs of 0.10 dollars / rake for each month m...

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:58 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: rakes
Replies: 3
Views: 1269

Car and time

how much time did it take a certain car to travel 400 km? 1. the car traveled the first 200 km in 2.5 hrs 2. if the car's average speed had been 20 km/hr greater than it was, it would have traveled the 400 km in 1 hr less than it did. From the prompt we get 400=rt Is this setup correct? 1. is obviou...

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:43 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Car and time
Replies: 7
Views: 1611

K

if K is a positive 3-digit integer, what is the hundreds digit of K?

1. the hundreds digit of K+150 is 4.
2. the tens digit of K+25 is 7.

E

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:34 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: K
Replies: 2
Views: 1101

Thank you, I was doing negative reciprocal of the number and therefore getting another anwer.

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:32 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: number line
Replies: 3
Views: 4072

number line

if n denotes a number to the left of 0 on the number line such that the square of n is less than 1/100, then the reciprocal of n must be

a. less than -10
b. between -1 and -1/10
c. between -1/10 and 0
d. between 0 and 1/10
e. greater than 10

A

by Viper83

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:23 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: number line
Replies: 3
Views: 4072

Sorry about the typo...it is fixed now.

by Viper83

Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:15 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: stamps
Replies: 4
Views: 1368

stamps

the number of stamps that kaye and alberto had were in the ratio 5:3. after kaye gave alberto 10 stamps the ratio that kaye had to the number alberto had was 7:5. as a result of the gift, kaye had how many more stamps than Alberto?

A. 20
B. 30
C. 40
D. 60
E. 90

C

by Viper83

Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:05 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: stamps
Replies: 4
Views: 1368

karen and jason

jason and karen's salary were each p percent greater in 1998 than in 1995. what is p?

1. in 1995 karens salary was 2000 dollars greater than jason's.
2. in 1998 karen's salary was 2440 dollars greater than jason's.

C

by Viper83

Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:52 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: karen and jason
Replies: 2
Views: 1065

ratio

if m,r,x and y are positive, is the ratio of m to r equal to the ratio of x to y?

1. ratio of m to y is equal to ratio of x to r.

2. ratio of m+x to r+y is equal to ratio of x to y.

B

by Viper83

Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:49 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: ratio
Replies: 3
Views: 1126