{"id":14568,"date":"2012-10-02T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2012-10-03T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T04:00:33","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-2-algebra-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-2-algebra-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Oct 2): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are positive integers <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P' title='P' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Q&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Q' title='Q' class='latex' \/> , and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=R&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='R' title='R' class='latex' \/> equal?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P+%3D+Q&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P = Q' title='P = Q' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Q%5E2+%3D+R%5E2&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Q^2 = R^2' title='Q^2 = R^2' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m03-77840.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br \/>\n(click and drag your mouse to see the answer) <strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- C -<\/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\">Save $350 via GMAT Club on Manhattan GMAT. 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At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office. <\/p>\n<p>The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article? <\/p>\n<p>(A) On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office.<br \/>\n(B) 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office.<br \/>\n(C) At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.<br \/>\n(D) At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office.<br \/>\n(E) Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-work-at-home-67442.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- C -<\/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 (DS) Are positive integers , , and equal? 1. 2. Question Discussion &amp; Explanation &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Correct Answer &#8211; C -&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,721,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-data-sufficiency-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}