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Noble Sissle
While Noble Sissle may be best known for his collaboration with Eubie Blake, as both a vaudeville performer and as a lyricist for songs and Broadway musicals, also enjoying an independent career as a singer with such groups as Hahn's Jubilee Singers. (A) and as a lyricist for songs and Broadway musi...
- by rsarashi
Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Noble Sissle
- Replies: 2
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A that -modifier is a relative CLAUSE. By definition, a clause must include a verb. Hi GMATGuruNY , Thank you s much for your reply sir. I got it. I have another question . Here, that modifier is modifying the social phenomena right? We are considering phenomena plural here? Please advise. Thanks
- by rsarashi
Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:18 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG2017..........'that' & 'those' problem
- Replies: 8
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Hi GMATGuruNY ,social phenomena that are inseparable from bodily response
Here, the that-clause in blue serves to modify social phenomena.
Just a quick question.
Can you please explain that if blue part is modifying social phenomena, then why do we need are after that?
Please help sir!
- by rsarashi
Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:13 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG2017..........'that' & 'those' problem
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6128
Hello Experts ,
I got my two equations like below.
K/A = 5/3
&
K-10/A+10 = 7/5
If i solve this i get the difference of 60
Please let me know where i am getting wrong.
Thanks.
- by rsarashi
Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:26 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT Practice exam 2 - Rations
- Replies: 8
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An excerpt from an OA in GMATPrep: Selma became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize . Given this OA, I would not cite the presence of and also as a reason to eliminate an answer choice. Hi GMATGuruNY , Can you please explain more that both and also are acceptabl...
- by rsarashi
Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Redundancy
- Replies: 5
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B. She turned away from literary realism and wrote romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape of northern Sweden, and novelist Selma Lagerlöf in 1909 became the first woman as well as the first Swedish writer that won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Look for EASY reasons to eliminate an...
- by rsarashi
Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:32 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Gmat Prep in addition to
- Replies: 15
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HI greenwich, For this CR prompt, we need to understand the pretzel vendor's logic, then find an answer that strengthens it. The Facts: -The new license fee for operating a pretzel stand outside the museum is expensive. -Charging typical prices, a vendor needs to sell 25 pretzels/hr. just to break ...
- by rsarashi
Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:45 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pretzel
- Replies: 6
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A certain list consists of 21 different numbers
A certain list consists of 21 different numbers. If n is in the list and n is 4 times the average(arithmetic mean) of the other 20 numbers in the list, then n is what fraction of the sum of the 21 numbers in the list?
A) 1/20
B) 1/6
C) 1/5
D) 4/21
E) 5/21
OAB
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:34 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: A certain list consists of 21 different numbers
- Replies: 5
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Professor Vasquez
Professor Vasquez gave a quiz to two classes. Was the range of scores fro the first class equal to the range of scores for the second class? (1) In each class, the number of students taking the quiz was 26, and the lowest score in each class was 70. (2) IN each class, the average (arithmetic mean) s...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:29 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Professor Vasquez
- Replies: 4
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How many shares of company X stock
Of the shares of stock owned by certain investor, 30 percent are share of company X stock and 1/7 of the remaining shares are shares of company Y stock. How many shares of company X stock does the investor own? |) The investors owns 100 shares of company Y stock. ||) The investor owns 200 more share...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:23 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: How many shares of company X stock
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2470
Hi Rich ,Your prompt has a 'typo' in it (it states that Mary drove for 1 minute; it should state that she drove for '15 minutes').
Thanks for noticing. I have edited my prompt.
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:11 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Mary passed a certain gas station
- Replies: 4
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Alaskan brown bear
Largest of all land carnivores, weighing up to 1500 pounds and measuring 8 feet in length, the Alaskan brown bear is a close relative of grizzly bear. A.Largest of all land carnivores, weighing up to 1500 pounds and measuring B.Largest of all land carnivores, weighing up to 1500 pounds and it measu...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:22 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Alaskan brown bear
- Replies: 1
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The State religion of ancient China
The State religion of ancient China, which came into existence at least as far back as the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 220) and perhaps as early as the western Zhou Dynasty (1050 B.C. to 771 B.C.), allowed only emperors performing the ritual worship of heaven, perceiving them as special links betw...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:15 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The State religion of ancient China
- Replies: 1
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Mary passed a certain gas station
Mary passed a certain gas station on a highway while travelling west at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour. Then, 15 minutes later, Paul passed the same gas station while travelling west at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. If both drivers maintained their speeds and both remained on the hig...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:56 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Mary passed a certain gas station
- Replies: 4
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probability that the marble selected will be purple?
On a store counter are exactly two boxes containing only purple marbles and yellow marbles. Box A has 30 purple marbles and 20 yellow marbles; box B has 15 purple marbles and 35 yellow marbles. If Melanie randomly selects one of the boxes and then randomly selects one marble from that box, what is t...
- by rsarashi
Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:49 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: probability that the marble selected will be purple?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1283