{"id":1458,"date":"2009-12-03T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2009-12-03T02:57:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:57:58","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 3): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A corporation with 5,000,000 shares of publicly listed stock reported total earnings of $7.20 per share for the first 9 months of operation. During the final quarter the number of publicly listed shares was increased to 10,000,000 shares, and fourth quarter earnings were reported as $1.25 per share. What are the average annual earnings per share based on the number of shares at the end of the year?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 1.75<br \/>\n(B) 2.40<br \/>\n(C) 3.15<br \/>\n(D) 3.60<br \/>\n(E) 4.85<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m03-q27-74196.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">amounts to a sum lower<\/span> than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays major role in health-care inflation.<\/p>\n<p>(A) amounts to a sum lower<br \/>\n(B) amounts to less<br \/>\n(C) amounted to less<br \/>\n(D) amounted to lower<br \/>\n(E) amounted to a lower sum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-less-than-vs-lower-than-67642.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) A corporation with 5,000,000 shares of publicly listed stock reported total earnings of $7.20 per share for the first 9 months of operation. During the final quarter the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}