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I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   22 Jan 2010, 09:35
Hi everyone, This is my first time ever on here and I am very nervous. I have booked my GMAT exam for March 26, 2010. I am currently not working and have all the time in the world to study for this exam. I haven't taken math since about 2nd year university which was back in '06 with the finance courses I took which I didn't do too bad in. I have started studying and I am trying to grasp basic math concepts.

Here are the books i'm using:
GMAT Review 11th Edition OG (Orange book)
GMAT Verbal Review OG (Purple book)
GMAT Quant Review OG (Green book)
Kaplan GMAT Math Workbook 6th Edition
Kaplan GMAT 800
Old GMAT tests in paper form

I started with the Kaplan GMAT Math Workbook and I am covering the math topics in there to start things off. The first topic in there is Number properties. If anyone has more basic questions for me to better grasp number properties please feel free to share them. Thank you.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   22 Jan 2010, 09:42
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...If anyone has more basic questions for me to better grasp number properties please feel free to share them.


Look at this post:
- Number theory
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   22 Jan 2010, 10:25
Thank you very much for that page, the books don't really go into great detail about number properties. I went to the number properties questions on here and I had trouble solving even the easy level ones.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   23 Jan 2010, 22:20
Use some basic material like kaplan/princeton for learning number properties, it would make you comfortable
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   24 Jan 2010, 07:31
Good point... I have both the Kaplan and the Princeton Cracking the GMAT books, but I felt i needed some other source to supplement number properties/theory. I guess the Number Theory page posted above and these 2 books should be adequate since most of the material for number properties overlaps anyways. Thanks.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   24 Jan 2010, 09:52
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By the way, you can use search with tag: Number Properties and you will find questions with good discussion.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   24 Jan 2010, 15:23
is that by using the search tool at the top next to the user control panel?
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   25 Jan 2010, 15:34
Also you might check out some math flash cards. I'm not sure if they have ones that are specific to number theory, but I found them helpful to just throw in my purse and study on the bus and stuff.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   25 Jan 2010, 15:49
that's a good idea, I have start making flash cards out of the math concepts already.
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   25 Jan 2010, 15:52
I have a question regarding number properties, which I found on an old GMAT test paper form. Here it is:


If the sum of two positive integers is 24 and the difference of their squares is 48, what is the product of the two integers?

(a) 108
(b) 119
(c) 128
(d) 135
(e) 143

Is there a more efficient way of solving this than choosing two numbers at random?
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Re: I'm a newbie in need of some help [#permalink] New post   25 Jan 2010, 19:09
roceeet wrote:
I have a question regarding number properties, which I found on an old GMAT test paper form. Here it is:


If the sum of two positive integers is 24 and the difference of their squares is 48, what is the product of the two integers?

(a) 108
(b) 119
(c) 128
(d) 135
(e) 143

Is there a more efficient way of solving this than choosing two numbers at random?


You'd be better off asking specific math questions and/or strategies on the Quant Forum.

Good luck with your prep.
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