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GMAT Question of the Day (July 27)

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Math

Because of weight limits, a lorry can carry a maximum of 20 crates of apples. The weight of a crate of oranges is \frac{3}{4} the weight of a crate of apples. If 10 crates of apples were loaded into the lorry, what is the maximum number of crates of oranges that the lorry can still accommodate?

A. 8
B. 9
C. 12
D. 13
E. 14

Question Discussion & Explanation
Correct Answer - D - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)

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Verbal

Contemporary accounts of the life of Charlemagne, crowned emperor by the pope in 800, show that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature and the arts was himself an illiterate driven by his desire for a civilized state to reform education in his kingdom.
a) that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature and the arts was himself an illiterate driven by his desire
b) that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature as well as in the arts was himself an illiterate and also driven by his desire
c) that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature and the arts was himself an illiterate and that he was driven by his desire
d) that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature as well as in the arts was himself an illiterate and that he was driven by his desire
e) that the founder of the Carolingian renaissance in literature and the arts was himself an illiterate and that his desire drove him

Question Discussion & Explanation

Correct Answer - A - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)

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