{"id":21736,"date":"2014-01-14T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=21736"},"modified":"2013-11-19T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T06:01:09","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-14-special-operation-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-14-special-operation-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 14): Special Operation and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P%5C%23+%3D+%5Cfrac%7BP%7D%7BP-1%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P\\# = \\frac{P}{P-1}' title='P\\# = \\frac{P}{P-1}' class='latex' \/> , what is the value of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P%5C%23%5C%23&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P\\#\\#' title='P\\#\\#' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac+%7BP%7D%7BP-1%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac {P}{P-1}' title='\\frac {P}{P-1}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7BP%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{1}{P}' title='\\frac{1}{P}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <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' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=2+-+P&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='2 - P' title='2 - P' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P+-+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P - 1' title='P - 1' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m05-q5-simple-math-help-please-70378.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- C -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\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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This fact provides some confirmation for the parasitic-connection hypothesis, since the hypothesis predicts that for an animal that did not dream to have an effective memory that animal would need extra memory space for the parasitic connections.<\/p>\n<p>The parasitic-connection hypothesis, if true, most strongly supports which one of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) The animals with the smallest brains spend the most time sleeping.<br \/>\n(B) Immediately after a person awakens from normal sleep, her or his memory contains virtually no accidental associations between ideas.<br \/>\n(C) When a mammal that would normally dream is prevented from dreaming, the functioning of its memory will be impaired.<br \/>\n(D) Insofar as a person\u2019s description of a dream involves meaningful associations between ideas, it is an inaccurate description.<br \/>\n(E) All animals other than the spiny anteater dream.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/no-one-knows-what-purposes-if-any-dreams-serve-although-76075.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- C -<\/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 (PS) If , what is the value of ? 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