{"id":1604,"date":"2009-12-22T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2009-12-22T02:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T10:56:17","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-22-combinations-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-22-combinations-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 22): Combinations and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rectangular floor measures 2 by 3 meters. There are 5 white, 5 black, and 5 red parquet blocks available. If each block measures 1 by 1 meter, in how many different color patterns can the floor be parqueted?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 104<br \/>\n(B) 213<br \/>\n(C) 577<br \/>\n(D) 705<br \/>\n(E) 726<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m16-5-pls-answer-71191.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On nearing the Earth, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">charged particles coming from the Sun tend to be deflected toward the North and South poles by the Earth's magnetic field<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(A) charged particles coming from the Sun tend to be deflected toward the North and South poles by the Earth's magnetic field<br \/>\n(B) charged particles that come from the Sun tend to be deflected toward the North and South poles by the Earth's magnetic field<br \/>\n(C) charged particles tend to be deflected as they come from the Sun toward the North and South poles by the Earth's magnetic field<br \/>\n(D) the Earth's magnetic field tends to deflect charged particles that come from the Sun toward the North and South poles<br \/>\n(E) the Earth's magnetic field tends to deflect toward the North and South poles charged particles coming from the Sun <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-charged-particles-76319.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) A rectangular floor measures 2 by 3 meters. There are 5 white, 5 black, and 5 red parquet blocks available. If each block measures 1 by 1 meter,&#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-1604","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\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}