{"id":2409,"date":"2010-02-19T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2010-02-19T03:50:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:50:38","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-feb-19-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-feb-19-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Feb 19): Coordinate Geometry and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vertices of a triangle have coordinates <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%28x%2C+1%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(x, 1)' title='(x, 1)' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%285%2C+1%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(5, 1)' title='(5, 1)' class='latex' \/> , and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%285%2C+y%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(5, y)' title='(5, y)' class='latex' \/> where $latex x < 5$ and $latex y > 1$ . What is the area of the triangle?<\/p>\n<p>   1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x+%3D+y&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x = y' title='x = y' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n   2. Angle at the vertex <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%28x%2C+1%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(x, 1)' title='(x, 1)' class='latex' \/> = angle at the vertex <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%285%2C+y%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(5, y)' title='(5, y)' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m08-q-73273.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aristocratic values expressed in the writings of Marguerite Yourcenar place her within the French classical tradition, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">as does<\/span> her passionate interest in history, particularly Roman history.<\/p>\n<p>(A) as does<br \/>\n(B) so do<br \/>\n(C) as do<br \/>\n(D) so is the case with<br \/>\n(E) similarly, does<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-gmat-paper-test-series-76727.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) The vertices of a triangle have coordinates , , and where $latex x < 5$ and $latex y > 1$ . What is the area of the triangle?&#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-2409","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\/2409","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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}