GMAT Question of the Day (July 15)

Math

Aunt Marge is giving candy to each of her nephews and nieces. She has 20 pieces of candy and she gives all the candy to the children according to her wish. If Robert gets 2 more pieces than Kate, Bill gets 6 less than Mary, Mary gets 2 more pieces than Robert, and Kate gets 2 more pieces than Bill, how many pieces of candy does Kate get?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 10

Verbal

The Venetian Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio used sumptuous reds in most of his paintings. Since the recently discovered Venetian Renaissance painting Erato Declaiming contains notable sumptuous reds, it is probably by Carpaccio.

Which one of the following contains a pattern of flawed reasoning most similar to that in the argument above?

(A) Most Renaissance painters worked in a single medium, either tempera or oil paint. Since the Renaissance painting Calypso’s Bower is in oil, its painter probably always used oil paint.

(B) In Italian Renaissance painting, the single most common subject was the Virgin and child, so the single most common subject in Western art is probably also the Virgin and child.

(C) Works of art in the Renaissance were mostly commissioned by patrons, so the Renaissance work The Dances of Terpsichore was probably commissioned by a patron.

(D) The anonymous painting St. Sebastian is probably an early Florentine painting since it is in tempera, and most early Florentine paintings were in tempera.

(E) Since late-Renaissance paintings were mostly in oil, the Venetian late- Renaissance painter Arnoldi, whose works are now lost, probably used oil paint.

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