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04 Jul 2008, 16:05

I think it is me who made made a mistake

Actually it is not BC = 2r/cos(37°) but BC = 4r/cos(37°). Same thing BD = 4r/sin(37°)

(hence the factor 4 difference: I wrote radius for diameter...)

Then the area of the parallelogram is BD*BC = 16*r^2/(cos(37°)*sin(37°))

The ratio we want is then \frac{(4-\Pi)cos(37^o)sin(37^o)}{16} (exact answer, no approximation of any kind)

which numerically is about 2.58% :-D

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04 Jul 2008, 16:11

Hi, jallenmorris,

The last version of the pic., again, does not give sufficient info:
you can change the angle BAD, and obtain different values of parallelogram’s area.

The fact that in your picture B is strictly above D does not help: it could be merely a coincidence. So in the end the picture doesn’t let us to correctly infer that ABD is right triangle. On real GMAT pictures, all measures that intended to be fixed, are explicitly fixed.

So I think this would be somewhat more proper picture:

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Also, you need to state that ABCD is parallelogram.

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04 Jul 2008, 20:03

If you read the first post, I do state it's a parallelogram by stating AD || BC and AB || DC.

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Also, you need to state that ABCD is parallelogram.

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06 Jul 2008, 02:19

Oski wrote:

I think it is me who made made a mistake

Question for you english speakers: Is this correct?

Do you say "it is me who made made a mistake" or do you say "it is I who made made a mistake"?

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06 Jul 2008, 07:35

I believe this is the correct format:

"It is I who made a mistake." - Use I and only 1 "made".
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06 Jul 2008, 07:50

jallenmorris wrote:

I believe this is the correct format:

"It is I who made a mistake." - Use I and only 1 "made".

Sorry for the double made

And thank you for your answer for "I" :-D

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06 Jul 2008, 07:54

also, realize this....even though the proper form is "It is I who made a mistake." I doubt many native english speakers actually say this. Most people are going to say "It was me that made the mistake." or they'll use any other form of saying it is their fault.
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06 Jul 2008, 07:59

jallenmorris wrote:

"It is I who made a mistake" but "It is me that made a mistake"... No wonders I have difficulties with the sentence correction questions...

But thanks for your patience with this ! :-D

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