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GMAT Question of the Day (December 13)

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Math

15 computers in a corporate network are infected with a virus. If every day several computers are arbitrarily selected for scanning, what is the probability that no computer containing the virus will be scanned in the course of the next five days?

(1) 10 computers are scanned every day.

(2) 4% of all computers in the corporate network are scanned every day.

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

Verbal

New problems require new solutions. And new problems arise with new populations and new technologies. The solutions of these problems require new institutions as well as new political, economic, and social mechanisms. Yet institutions and political and economic arrangements grow slowly, new institutions should be given every chance of success.

The writer of the above makes which of the following assumptions:

A. New institutions are needed because old institutions are inefficient.

B. New institutions are created in order to solve existing problems

C. As old institutions are phased out, new ones take their place.

D. If there were no growth, old institutions would die more slowly.

E. Socio-technological change requires new forms of institutional arrangement.

Question Discussion & Explanation

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

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