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The Official Guide For GMAT® Quantitative Review, 2ND Edition3/100 + 5/1,000 + 7/100,000 =
(A) 0.357
(B) 0.3507
(C) 0.35007
(D) 0.0357
(E) 0.03507
Problem Solving
Question: 27
Category: Arithmetic Operations on rational numbers
Page: 65
Difficulty: 600
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This problem is easy to solve if you stay organized and see the trap in answer choices D/E. In this case, 3/*100 * 1000/1000 = 3000/100,000 + 5/1000 * 100/100 = 500/100,000 + 7/100,000 = 3000+500+7/100,000 = 3507/100,000.
3507/100,000 = 0.03507, so the answer tries to trip you up with answers D/E which have the correct number of zeroes after the decimal place but the wrong middle term in the decimal (D is missing a 0 in the ten thousandths column).