{"id":21963,"date":"2013-12-09T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/free-gmat-question-of-the-week-discover-data-sufficiency\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T14:00:15","slug":"free-gmat-question-of-the-week-discover-data-sufficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/free-gmat-question-of-the-week-discover-data-sufficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Free GMAT Question of the Week: Discover Data Sufficiency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GMAT Question<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0<em>b<\/em>\u00a0\u2260 0 and\u00a0<em>a<\/em>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<em>b<\/em>, is\u00a0<em>a<\/em>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<em>c<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>(1) a\/b&gt; c\/b<\/p>\n<p>(2) 5<em>ab<\/em>\u00a0&gt; 6<em>bc<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a cursory glance, you can see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mba.com\/the-gmat\/test-structure-and-overview\/quant-section.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GMAT\u00a0math<\/a>\u00a0takes you back to concepts that you learned in high school. Look a bit closer and you see that it actually takes you back much further than that, to math you learned in elementary school - integers, positives\/negatives, etc. One of the interesting things about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/GMAT\/About-the-GMAT\/index.html?cmp=blog:GMAT_otherinfo_112013\" target=\"_blank\">GMAT<\/a> is that sometimes these throwbacks to simple math are used to create challenging critical thinking problems. The problem above is one of those.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post your answer and your method in the comments below. We'll share the full Kaplan explanation, with secrets for how to master GMAT Data Sufficiency, in tomorrow's blog entry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMAT Question: If\u00a0b\u00a0\u2260 0 and\u00a0a\u00a0&gt;\u00a0b, is\u00a0a\u00a0&gt;\u00a0c? (1) a\/b&gt; c\/b (2) 5ab\u00a0&gt; 6bc From a cursory glance, you can see that GMAT\u00a0math\u00a0takes you back to concepts that you learned in high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,558,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-kaplan-blog","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}