{"id":1685,"date":"2009-12-29T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2009-12-29T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:02:49","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-29-work-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-29-work-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 29): Work Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three secretaries working together can type 36 pages of text in half an hour. If the typing speeds of the secretaries are in a 4:3:2 ratio, how long will it take the slowest-typing secretary working alone to type 52 pages of text?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 1 hour and 34 minutes<br \/>\n(B) 1 hour and 45 minutes<br \/>\n(C) 2 hours and 24 minutes<br \/>\n(D) 3 hours and 15 minutes<br \/>\n(E) 3 hours and 25 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/ps-3-secretaries-m21-55969.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Eighty percent of notebook computers that were sold in United States last year were <\/span>manufactured in China, a country that has the largest population in the world. <\/p>\n<p>(A) Eighty percent of notebook computers that were sold in United States last year were<br \/>\n(B) Eighty percent of notebook computers that were sold in United States last year had been<br \/>\n(C) Eighty percent of notebook computers that were sold in United States last year have been<br \/>\n(D) Last year eighty percent of notebook computers were sold in United States that have been<br \/>\n(E) Last year eighty percent of notebook computers that were sold in United States had been<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-computers-76281.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) Three secretaries working together can type 36 pages of text in half an hour. If the typing speeds of the secretaries are in a 4:3:2 ratio, how long&#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-1685","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\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}