{"id":10664,"date":"2012-03-16T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2012-03-16T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:55:04","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-mar-16-algebra-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-mar-16-algebra-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Mar 16): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> is a positive integer, <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=f%28x%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='f(x)' title='f(x)' class='latex' \/> is defined as the number of positive integers which are less than <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> and do not have common factor with <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> other than 1. If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> is prime then <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=f%28x%29+%3D+%3F&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='f(x) = ?' title='f(x) = ?' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x+-+2&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x - 2' title='x - 2' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x+-+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x - 1' title='x - 1' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7Bx+%2B+1%7D%7B2%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{x + 1}{2}' title='\\frac{x + 1}{2}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7Bx+-+1%7D%7B2%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{x - 1}{2}' title='\\frac{x - 1}{2}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) 2<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m23-69482.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- B -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgb(141, 179, 226); border-top: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 5px; margin-left: 20px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Gergia,serif; font-weight: bold\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px\">GMAT Daily Deals<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">e-GMAT: Up to 37% off the world's 1st prep course designed to help non-natives score higher on GMAT Verbal. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/e-gmat-discount-coupon-code\/?fl=blog\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Learn more!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Magoosh: GMAT Prep that's as smart as you are. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/magoosh-gmat-discount\/?fl=blog\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Get up to 50% off!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Precision Essay \"Rigorous application consulting for dedicated candidates (with us, you will work HARD).\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionessay.com\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Save $100!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to psychoanalytic theory, people have unconscious beliefs that are kept from becoming conscious by a psychological mechanism termed \u201crepression.\u201d Researchers investigating the nature of this mechanism observed occasions on which a patient undergoing therapy became aware of and expressed a previously unconscious belief. They found that such occasions were marked by an unusual decrease in the patient\u2019s level of anxiety. <\/p>\n<p>If the information above is true, and if the researchers\u2019 investigation was properly conducted, then which of the following must also be true? <\/p>\n<p>(A) Changes in the patient\u2019s anxiety level during therapy can generally be used as an accurate measure of the extent to which the patient is becoming conscious of previously repressed beliefs.<br \/>\n(B) Even when one of a patient\u2019s unconscious beliefs remains unconscious, researchers are sometimes able to discover this belief.<br \/>\n(C) If psychoanalytic theory is correct, then most conscious beliefs originate as unconscious beliefs.<br \/>\n(D) Researchers were able to distinguish expressed beliefs that had previously been unconscious from those that had long been conscious but that the patient had not previously expressed.<br \/>\n(E) Although the beliefs on which the mechanism of repression works are all unconscious, the operation of the mechanism itself is something of which patients are consciously aware.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/according-to-psychoanalytic-theory-people-have-unconscious-78519.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- D -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong> Get the GMAT Club question collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests\/\">online at GMAT Club<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FGMAT-Club%2FB0048PPF3U%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dntt_athr_dp_pel_1&tag=gmatclub-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957\">on your Kindle<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=blog&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fgmat-toolkit%252Fid328345537%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">on your iPhone\/iPad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/gmat-tests\/\"><strong>Browse all GMAT Questions of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to GMAT Question of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GMAT-Question-of-the-day&amp;loc=en_US\">E-mail<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GMAT-Question-of-the-day\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) If is a positive integer, is defined as the number of positive integers which are less than and do not have common factor with other than 1. 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