{"id":1739,"date":"2009-12-31T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2009-12-31T03:01:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:01:46","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-31-algebra-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-31-algebra-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 31): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many different numbers <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y' title='y' class='latex' \/> are there such that <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Ay+%2B+B+%3D+C&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Ay + B = C' title='Ay + B = C' class='latex' \/> ( <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A' title='A' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=B&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='B' title='B' class='latex' \/> , and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=C&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='C' title='C' class='latex' \/> are known) ?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=C+%3E+B&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='C &gt; B' title='C &gt; B' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A+%3E+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A &gt; 1' title='A &gt; 1' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m23-74149.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abolish taxes, and real taxpayers would find that their disposable incomes have increased. Abolish taxes, and public employees would find that their incomes have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Which one of the following is a logical conclusion that depends on information in both of the statements above?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Public offices should be abolished so that disposable incomes will rise.<br \/>\n(B) The only real taxpayers are those who would have more to spend if they did not pay taxes.<br \/>\n(C) Public employees are not real taxpayers.<br \/>\n(D) Public employees\u2019 incomes should not be taxed since they come from taxes.<br \/>\n(E) If there were no taxes, then public employees could not be paid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-abolish-taxes-76045.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) How many different numbers are there such that ( , , and are known) ? 1. 2. OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) Abolish taxes, and real taxpayers would&#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-1739","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\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}