{"id":2384,"date":"2010-02-17T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2010-02-17T02:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:24:39","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-feb-17-algebra-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-feb-17-algebra-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Feb 17): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y%28u+-+c%29+%3D+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y(u - c) = 0' title='y(u - c) = 0' class='latex' \/> and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=j%28u+-+k%29+%3D+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='j(u - k) = 0' title='j(u - k) = 0' class='latex' \/> , which of the following must be true, assuming $latex c < k$ ?\n\n(A) $latex yj < 0$\n(B) $latex yj > 0$<br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=yj+%3D+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='yj = 0' title='yj = 0' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=j+%3D+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='j = 0' title='j = 0' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y+%3D+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y = 0' title='y = 0' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m06-72818.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw wrote: \"That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.\"<\/p>\n<p>Shaw's statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit<br \/>\n(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population<br \/>\n(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins<br \/>\n(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share<br \/>\n(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples' basic needs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-george-bernard-shaw-76634.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) If and , which of the following must be true, assuming $latex c < k$ ? (A) $latex yj < 0$ (B) $latex yj > 0$ (C) (D)&#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-2384","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\/2384","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=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}