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Day 1 - questions

Problem Solving — algebra and arithmetic (GMAT Focus Edition)
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by AurobindoSaha » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:41 pm
Hello,

As for Day 1's assignment, I did not quite understand the following explanation on PS & DS in Diagnostic Test section of OG12.

Will appreciate if any one of you can help me to understand these.

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Q 14. very complicated explanation, can someone please re explain
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Q 15. The way power of 10 is calculated is first by knowing (multiplying the prime numbers < 20). In real test is it intended that we need to do so big multiplications 2x3x5x7x13x17x19. Is there any better way of solving this problem?
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Q 25. The method explained by squaring each sample number looks very crude. Its involves lots of maths. A better way I find is as follows -

We are considering 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 here as unit digit of n

just concentrate in squaring or cubing only the unit digit of n (i.e. the numbers mentioned above).

According to my understanding no need to test by squaring the complete number n

Statement 1: Satisfied for 5,6 - Insufficient
Statement 2: Satisfied for 4,5,6,9 - Insufficient

we can not arrive at a conclusion what will be the unit digit of n.
Hence E

Please let me know if my approach is correct.
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Q 26. I chose C, Basically the question is asking p as LCM of 2,3,5,7 i.e. 210
The answer is actually E, just because I assumed the word "only" as implied.
Feeling tricked :(
Anyway, I accept E as correct answer.

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Q 31. I am seeing the solution has been done by trial and error method using different values. This can be very laborious in actual test. Is there a better method available.

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Q 34. Did not understand the explanation

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Thanks in advance
Thanks
Aurobindo
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Source: — Quantitative Reasoning |

by beatthegmat » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:34 pm
Moving this post to the Problem Solving forum.
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by mj78ind » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:47 pm
Hi Aurobindo,

It would be great if you could write the questions, tis tough to refer to the OG and then solve.

Cheers
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by AurobindoSaha » Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:52 am
Eric,

The questions are mix of PS and DS, so I am not sure if you like to move this into PS forum only. Anyway, I am absolutely OK with what you feel best organizes the forum posts.

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OK, here is a question and I did not under its solution given in OG12 (page 63)

Of the 66 people in a certain auditorium, at most 6 people have birthdays in any one given month. Does at least one person in the auditorium have a birthday in January?

1. More of the people in the auditorium have birthdays in February than in March
2. Five of the people in the auditorium have birthdays in March.
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In due course, I will post the other questions for which I did not understand the OG12 explanation.

Thanks in advance.
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by rodalvarezz » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:20 am
AurobindoSaha wrote:Eric,

The questions are mix of PS and DS, so I am not sure if you like to move this into PS forum only. Anyway, I am absolutely OK with what you feel best organizes the forum posts.

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OK, here is a question and I did not under its solution given in OG12 (page 63)

Of the 66 people in a certain auditorium, at most 6 people have birthdays in any one given month. Does at least one person in the auditorium have a birthday in January?

1. More of the people in the auditorium have birthdays in February than in March
2. Five of the people in the auditorium have birthdays in March.
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In due course, I will post the other questions for which I did not understand the OG12 explanation.

Thanks in advance.

Aurobindo -

This is a DS question. But anyways, here is the answer.

The problem says that at the most 6 people have birthdays in a given month. So if you divide 66/6 you have 11 months with people having a birthday. Now looking at the statements:

1) If more people have birthdays in February than in March, then you can assume that March has <6 people, so the remaining will be part of January ---> Remember there can only be 6 people at the most in the other months. So statement 1 is sufficent.

2) Same as first statement, if 5 people have birthdays in March, the other 1 should have a birthday in January because no other month can have more than 6 people. So statement 2 is also sufficient.

Answer, D
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by beatthegmat » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:28 am
Thanks for that feedback--you're absolutely correct, I mis-forwarded this post. May I ask a favor? Can you please break up each question into a single post (and place them in the correct forum) in the future? That will make it MUCH easier for this community to respond.

Appreciate your help,

Eric
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by AurobindoSaha » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:50 pm
Hi rodalvarezz,

Thanks for your explanation, now I got the point.

This has been a very helpful forum. Thanks
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by AurobindoSaha » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:52 pm
Hi Eric,

Sorry for messing up the organization of this post. Sure, in future I will be posting in each question in separate posts and will put them in appropriate forum. Can you excuse me this time?

Thanks.
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by beatthegmat » Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:28 pm
No worries! :)
AurobindoSaha wrote:Hi Eric,

Sorry for messing up the organization of this post. Sure, in future I will be posting in each question in separate posts and will put them in appropriate forum. Can you excuse me this time?

Thanks.
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by 780gmat » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:22 pm
Q45:

Was I the only one who interpreted "five of the people" as "at least 5 of the people but possibly more"?
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