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This is a test of you knowledge of number properties: the product of a number of consecutive integers is divisible by its number of terms. it works to make a table listing x , x+1 and x+2 where it turns into this: x-6, x-5 , x-4 x-3, x-2 , x-1 x , x+1 , x+2 x+3, x+4 , x+5 Thus, you need a number tha...
- by rooster
Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:50 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: MGMAT problem
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1299
Let me explain my method and maybe you can let me know what you all think. To add onto sl750, you set up the problem with R, G, W, B, Y thus to fill the rotation, a complete round is 5 BUT you need to end on white, so you are looking for an answer that is divisible by 5 with a remainder of 3 68/5 = ...
- by rooster
Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:24 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: a necklace is made by stringing n individual beads....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5801
I set this problem up like this, let me know what you all think. Since we know this device creates an amount, but the amount is undefined, we set the amount to x. Since we know the number of machines is 6, and the number of days is 12 we can set the equation up like this: (X/6)= 12 days Solve for X ...
- by rooster
Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:23 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Six machines each working at same constant rate together can
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18227
Just a question with the "as does a rise in temperature"
It just sounds weird to me, does anyone have any other examples of when this type of phrase is used correctly?
- by rooster
Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:41 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Spicy
- Replies: 151
- Views: 70782
"only campers at Winnehatchee are students at Tri-Cities" would mean campers from Lakemont couldn't be students at Tri-Cities. That is what Bill is assuming he is disproving with his challenge. Thank you Tani, out of the 5 this choice was the one I was leaning on, but it still looked the ...
- by rooster
Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:31 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Winnehatchee
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3284
1. Ann: All the campers at Camp Winnehatchee go to Tri-Cities High School Bill: That‟s not true. Some Tri-Cities students are campers at Camp Lakemont. Bill‟s answer can be best explained on the assumption that he has interpreted Ann‟s remark to mean that (A) most of the campers at Camp Lakem...
- by rooster
Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:29 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Winnehatchee
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3284
Two groups of students, one from Country X and one from Country Y, were shown videotapes of criminal trials. When surveyed about sentences for those defendants who were found guilty, the opinions of the students from Country X were not correlated with whether the crimes were premeditated. The respo...
- by rooster
Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:59 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: premeditated crimes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1606
Have to come down firmly on the side of B here. The purpose of the plan is to get people to invest more resources into retirement services. If the reverse of B is true, then the money is just changing pockets - money left for retirement in plan z is now moved to this new retirement plan, but no &qu...
- by rooster
Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:32 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In an attempt to encourage citizens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3396
Ok i think i learned this from guru... lets question if it is so THEN WHAT.....or if we remove the given evidence does conclusion falls.... Ok A people have deposited and now start withdrawing:THEN WHAT ....then you cannot say it is successful ...conclusion falls.... For B People are withdrawing mo...
- by rooster
Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:42 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In an attempt to encourage citizens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3396
- by rooster
Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:53 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In an attempt to encourage citizens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3396
A convenience store manager noticed that a cooler which had been stocked with only a cola product and an iced-tea product had 15 colas left at the end of the day but only 3 iced-tea beverages. As a result, the manager reasoned that he should increase the amount of iced tea and decrease the amount o...
- by rooster
Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:08 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Confusing CR - Help required
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1686
IMO A Here is home i came down to it, Conclusion:In an attempt to encourage citizens to put more resources into retirement savings, goverment is had account plan.....AND now that the new plan is working exactly as the government expected. and see this line(clause): unless the money is withdrawn bef...
- by rooster
Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:55 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: In an attempt to encourage citizens
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3396
imo B But since physicians have the final say as to whether to prescribe a medication for a patient, inappropriate prescriptions would not become more common . with in the concl, please note the part in bold E says, when prescriptions don't work, then doctors give into: the prescription is rather a...
- by rooster
Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: illegal
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2083
Yeah in the begining I was on A and B.... But A sounded better to me in evaluating metrologists claim..... B Definately negates author's conclusion....but the usage of "most" making it all but none... Made me to think it like a contender than a correct option. How you would evade A?? Basi...
- by rooster
Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:09 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Meterologists' mathematical model..
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1965
Until recently, the scholarly consensus was that few marine species are approaching extinction. Closer examination of marine species near the island of West Indies, however, revealed many factors, such as climate change and Â…fishing, that may be contributing to the extinction of species thought to...
- by rooster
Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:05 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Inference doubt
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11270