{"id":21421,"date":"2013-12-03T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T02:18:55","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 3): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=q&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='q' title='q' class='latex' \/> is a positive integer, is <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=p%5Cfrac%7Bq%7D%7B%5Csqrt%7Bq%7D%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='p\\frac{q}{\\sqrt{q}}' title='p\\frac{q}{\\sqrt{q}}' class='latex' \/> an integer?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=q+%3D+p%5E2&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='q = p^2' title='q = p^2' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=p&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='p' title='p' class='latex' \/> is a positive integer<\/p>\n<div>(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m02-74895.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- A -<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgb(141, 179, 226); border-top: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 5px; margin-left: 20px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Gergia,serif; font-weight: bold\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px\">GMAT Daily Deals<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Manhattan GMAT: 99 percentile teachers and superior curriculum at a more affordable price. 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Federal legislation that prohibits the sale of video games to minors would help curb this painful wrist condition among adolescents. <\/p>\n<p>The doctor\u2019s conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?<\/p>\n<p>(A) The majority of federal legislators would vote for a bill that prohibits the sale of video games to minors.<br \/>\n(B) Not all adolescents who play video games on a regular basis suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome.<br \/>\n(C) Playing video games is the only way an adolescent can develop carpal tunnel syndrome.<br \/>\n(D) Most parents would refuse to purchase video games for their adolescent children.<br \/>\n(E) The regular playing of video games by adolescents does not produce such beneficial effects as better hand-eye coordination and improved reaction time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-68433.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- D -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong> Get the GMAT Club question collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests\/\">online at GMAT Club<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FGMAT-Club%2FB0048PPF3U%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dntt_athr_dp_pel_1&tag=gmatclub-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957\">on your Kindle<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=blog&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fgmat-toolkit%252Fid328345537%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">on your iPhone\/iPad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/gmat-tests\/\"><strong>Browse all GMAT Questions of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to GMAT Question of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GMAT-Question-of-the-day&amp;loc=en_US\">E-mail<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GMAT-Question-of-the-day\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) If is a positive integer, is an integer? 1. 2. is a positive integer (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion &amp; Explanation Correct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,721,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-data-sufficiency-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21423,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21421\/revisions\/21423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}