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by reachac » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:05 am
Yups me too got A
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by Sunny22uk » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:09 am
Is this question from McGraw hill? I have seen a lot of errors in their practice tests. The answer should be A.
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by wilderness » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:14 am
Yes it is.

Do you know if the difficulty level of McGraw Hill is closed to the real exam. I find them much easier than Power Prep and Kaplan. What was your expeirence about the relative difficulty.
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by Sunny22uk » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:19 am
I think 95% of the questions are of difficulty 400-500 and the scoring of these tests is based on percentage of questions you do right.I am doing these tests to develop stamina for just sitting in the exam for 4 hours.
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by ricky » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:35 am
YES it DOES in both equations...So D :lol:
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:40 am
From (2), either q OR n must equal 0, so we can't answer the original question. The answer should be (A).
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by malolakrupa » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:14 pm
I agree with D , because to test the values of both the equation when you substitue n = 0 , both the equations are valid . Hence the answer D.
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:40 pm
malolakrupa wrote:I agree with D , because to test the values of both the equation when you substitue n = 0 , both the equations are valid . Hence the answer D.
(D) is correct only if EACH statement by ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question.

If we look at statement (2) alone, we get:

q((2-n) - (2+n)) = 0

q(2 - n - 2 - n) = 0

q(-2n) = 0

-2qn = 0

qn = 0

So, we can conclude that EITHER q OR n must be 0, but we have no way of knowing which one it is.

Therefore, statement (2) is NOT sufficient on its own and we should choose:

(A) statement 1 is sufficient on its own but statement (2) is insufficient on its own.
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