{"id":2034,"date":"2010-01-21T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2010-01-21T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:10:26","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-21-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-21-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 21): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With both valves open, the pool will be filled with water in 48 minutes. The first valve alone would fill the pool in 2 hours. What is the capacity of the pool if every minute the second valve admits 50 cubic meters of water more than the first?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 9000 cubic meters<br \/>\n(B) 10500 cubic meters<br \/>\n(C) 11750 cubic meters<br \/>\n(D) 12000 cubic meters<br \/>\n(E) 12500 cubic meters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m12-63914.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">If the new airboat does what it is to be doing<\/span> -- travel at high speeds undeterred by sandbars, crocodile-infested mudflats, or marshy hippo haunts -- it could revolutionize transport on the 2,900-mile-long Congo River.<\/p>\n<p>(A) If the new airboat does what it is to be doing<br \/>\n(B) If the new airboat does what it is supposed to do<br \/>\n(C) If it does as the new airboat is supposed to do<br \/>\n(D) Doing what it is the new airboat is supposed to do<br \/>\n(E) Doing what the new airboat is to be doing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-airboat-76374.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) With both valves open, the pool will be filled with water in 48 minutes. The first valve alone would fill the pool in 2 hours. What is 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-2034","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\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}