Question of the day 26-2-2009

Question of the day : 24-2-2009

Question type : Problem Solving


Jim Broke’s only source of income comes from his job as a GMAT question writer. In this capacity, Jim earns a flat salary of $200 per week plus a fee of $9 for every question that he writes. Every year, Jim takes exactly two weeks of unpaid vacation to visit his uncle, a monk in Tibet, and get inspired for the next year. If a regular year consists of 52 weeks and the number of questions that Jim wrote in each of the past 5 years was an odd number greater than 20, which of the following could be Jim’s median annual income over the past 5 years?**

(A) $22,474
(B) $25,673
(C) $27,318
(D) $28,423
(E) $31,227

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Question of the day : 25-2-2009

Question of the day : 25-2-2009

Question type : Problem Solving

A group of four women and three men have tickets for seven adjacent seats in one row of a theatre. If the three men will not sit in three adjacent seats, how many possible different seating arrangements are there for these 7 theatre-goers?

(A) 7! – 2!3!2!
(B) 7! – 4!3!
(C) 7! – 5!3!
(D) 7 × 2!3!2!
(E) 2!3!2!


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Question of the day : 24-2-2009

Question of the day : 24-2-2009

Question type : Problem Solving

If n is an integer and n^4 is divisible by 32, which of the following could be the remainder when n is divided by 32?

(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6
(E) 10

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Question of the day : 23-2-2009

Question of the day : 23-2-2009

Question type : Data sufficiency

The GMAT is scored on a scale of 200 to 800 in 10 point increments. (Thus 410 and 760 are real GMAT scores but 412 and 765 are not). A first-year class at a certain business school consists of 478 students. Did any students of the same gender in the first-year class who were born in the same-named month have the same GMAT score?

(1) The range of GMAT scores in the first-year class is 600 to 780.

(2) 60% of the students in the first-year class are male.

(A) Statement (1) alone is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
(B) Statement (2) alone is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
(C) BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
(D) Each statement ALONE is sufficient.
(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.


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Question of the day : 22-2-2009

Question of the day : 22-2-2009

Question type : Problem Solving


During a behavioral experiment in a psychology class, each student is asked to compute his or her lucky number by raising 7 to the power of the student's favorite day of the week (numbered 1 through 7 for Monday through Sunday respectively), multiplying the result by 3, and adding this to the doubled age of the student in years, rounded to the nearest year. If a class consists of 28 students, what is the probability that the median lucky number in the class will be a non-integer?

(A) 0%
(B) 10%
(C) 20%
(D) 30%
(E) 40%

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Question of the day : 21-2-2009

Question of the day : 21-2-2009

Question type : LR

Given that a, b, c, and d are different nonzero digits and that 10d + 11c < 100 – a, which of the following could not be a solution to the addition problem below?

abdc
+dbca
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(A) 3689
(B) 6887
(C) 8581
(D) 9459
(E) 16091

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Question of the day : 20-2-2009

Question of the day : 20-2-2009

Question type : Data sufficiency

A, B, C, D, and E are airline pilots with very busy travel schedules. Given that D is able to meet at any time that B cannot meet, do the schedules of A, B, C, D, and E allow three of these five individuals to meet together for two uninterrupted hours?

(1) Pilots A and C, who cannot meet together, are not able to end any meeting during the AM hours of any weekday.

(2) Pilots B and E, who can never meet for longer than 2 uninterrupted hours, are only available to meet for two straight hours starting at 10:30 PM on any weekday and not ending during the AM hours of any weekend day.

(A) Statement (1) alone is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
(B) Statement (2) alone is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
(C) BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
(D) Each statement ALONE is sufficient.
(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

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