GMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: Permutations Question
ParmarKarishma wrote:In how many ways can the letters of the word PERMUTATIONS be arranged if there are always 4 letters between P and S? My approach:Lets consider P_ _ _ _ S be a single letter.The...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Is x = |y - z| ?
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View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: Is x = |y - z|?
Hi,So what you are saying is that the stem asks whether positive x (because its set to an absolute value) is = to y-z or z-y but #1 could allow for x to be a negative value? Thus making it insufficient?
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: Parallelogram ABCD is to be constructed in...
GMATSPARTAN wrote:I tried many a ways but couldn't get the correct answer. but here is my approach to the question:|x -1| = 5 ==> -4 <= x <= 6;|y+5| = 6 ==> 1 <= y <= 11;since the...
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: Interesting Absolute value Problem
jjack0310 wrote:Bunuel wrote:GMATBLACKBELT720 wrote:Why when y<0 do we get -2y? Wheny<0 , then|y|=-y andx+|y|-y=6 becomes:x-y-y=6 -->x-2y=6. Sorry, still confusing me. I understand the first...
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: Rectangle ABCD is divided into five identical...
Not sure there's enough info to answer this. I got as far as letting sides BC and AD = x and AB and DC = y. 2x+2y = 132 ...reduces to x+y = 66. Since we're not even told one of sides it could really be...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: Is |x-z| = |y-z|?
WholeLottaLove wrote:Here is my problem. I solved this two ways and got two different answers. The first method was to square both sides and simplify and in doing so I got the right answer. The other...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: a , b , and c are integers. Is abc = 0? 1)...
jacg20 wrote:I saw this question in a gmat club test, and I still have some doubts about the answer. How can i reduce the expresion [(a+b)^2/(a+b)^2], if we don't know whether (a+b)^2 is 0 or not....
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: If |10y-4| > 7 and y < 1, which of the...
rhallik wrote:Bunuel wrote:laythesmack23 wrote:If |10y - 4| > 7 and y < 1, which of the following could be y? A. -0.8 B. -0.1 C. 0.1 D. 0 E. 1 We can simply plug answer choices less than 1 and...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: If x^2+12x−k=0, is x=4?
Got it!I was doing the mistake by considering the Stat.1 ONLY not focusing on the solns of the eqn in 1...!Thanks for clarifying.
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: Parallelogram ABCD is to be constructed in...
Transcendentalist wrote:GMATSPARTAN wrote: I tried many a ways but couldn't get the correct answer. but here is my approach to the question:|x -1| = 5 ==> -4 <= x <= 6;|y+5| = 6 ==> 1...
View ArticleGMAT Problem Solving (PS) | Re: In a room filled with 7 people, 4 people have...
reply2spg wrote:In a room filled with 7 people, 4 people have exactly 1 sibling in the room and 3 people have exactly 2 siblings in the room. If two individuals are selected from the room at random,...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Survey of Retailers
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View ArticleGMAT Club Tests | Re: M25#20
Hi everyone, most fastest way to solve this question is8_ _, different odd no. will be 8 _ _. first digit is 8, for odd number third digit will be (1,3,5,7,9) i.e. 5 possibility2nd digit we can fill...
View ArticleGMAT Club Tests | Re: M25 Q19
what I feel whenever we get this type equatn |x| + |y| = A, will always be a SQUARE 2*A will be diagonal of that square and side of square will be A*(sqrt of 2)and area will be 2*A*A so we have |x/2|...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: Survey of Retailers
SmitM wrote:In a survey of retailers, what percent had purchased computers for business purposes?(A) 85% of the retailers surveyed who owned their own store had purchased computers for business...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: Is x = |y - z|?
WholeLottaLove wrote:Hi,So what you are saying is that the stem asks whether positive x (because its set to an absolute value) is = to y-z or z-y but #1 could allow for x to be a negative value? Thus...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: Three dice, each with faces numbered from 1...
Three dice, each with faces numbered from 1 through 6, were tossed onto a game board. If one of the dice turned up 4, what is the sum of the numbers that turned up on all three dice? (1) The sum of...
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GMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: What fraction of the square region in the...
What fraction of the square region in the figure above is shaded?(1) The area of the square region is 36. We don't know positions of P and Q. Not sufficient.(2) P and Q are midpoints of two sides of...
View ArticleGMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: At the end of year X, was the number of...
At the end of year X, was the number of self-employed men more than twice the number of self-employed women? (1) From the end of Year X to the end of year Y, the number of self-employed men increased...
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