{"id":26048,"date":"2014-10-31T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=26048"},"modified":"2014-10-29T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:14:17","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-31\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Oct 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The functions <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?f\" alt=\"f\" class=\"latex\"> and <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?g\" alt=\"g\" class=\"latex\"> are defined for all the positive integers <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?n\" alt=\"n\" class=\"latex\"> by the following rule: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?f%28n%29\" alt=\"f(n)\" class=\"latex\"> is the number of positive perfect squares less than <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?n\" alt=\"n\" class=\"latex\"> and <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?g%28n%29\" alt=\"g(n)\" class=\"latex\"> is the number of primes numbers less than <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?n\" alt=\"n\" class=\"latex\">. If <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?f%28x%29%20%2B%20g%28x%29%20%3D%2016\" alt=\"f(x) + g(x) = 16\" class=\"latex\">, then <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?x\" alt=\"x\" class=\"latex\"> is in the range:<\/p>\n<p>A. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?30%20%5Clt%20x%20%5Clt%2036\" alt=\"30 \\lt x \\lt 36\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nB. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?30%20%5Clt%20x%20%5Clt%2037\" alt=\"30 \\lt x \\lt 37\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nC. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?31%20%5Clt%20x%20%5Clt%2037\" alt=\"31 \\lt x \\lt 37\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nD. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?31%20%5Clt%20x%20%5Clt%2038\" alt=\"31 \\lt x \\lt 38\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nE. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?32%20%5Clt%20x%20%5Clt%2038\" alt=\"32 \\lt x \\lt 38\" class=\"latex\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m25-184430.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\">e-GMAT\u2019s methods help non-natives improve on GMAT Verbal. $400 total savings @ GMAT Club. 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Clearly, people today have more money to spend on vacations than they did five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>All of the following, if true, would weaken the argument above EXCEPT:<\/p>\n<p>(A) Most people buying transatlantic tickets today use them for business trips, so airfare is refunded by their companies.<br \/>\n(B) There are fewer airlines in existence today than five years ago.<br \/>\n(C) People are taking shorter vacations and staying in cheaper hotels than they used to.<br \/>\n(D) Crossing the Atlantic by ship requires more time than most people can afford.<br \/>\n(E) Domestic airline flights have seen a steady increase in passengers<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/the-cost-of-transatlantic-airfare-has-nearly-doubled-over-69871.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- E -<\/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 The functions and are defined for all the positive integers by the following rule: is the number of positive perfect squares less than and is the number of primes&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048","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=26048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26050,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048\/revisions\/26050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}