{"id":27093,"date":"2015-01-13T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=27093"},"modified":"2015-01-09T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:51:42","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jan-13\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romi has a collection of 10 distinct books out of which 8 are small and 2 are large. In how many ways can he select 5 books to take with him on a trip if he can take at most 1 large book?<\/p>\n<p>A. 56<br \/>\nB. 126<br \/>\nC. 152<br \/>\nD. 196<br \/>\nE. 252<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/d01-183500.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- D -<\/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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What must, of course, be shown, in order to mitigate the risk of excessively restrictive contols, is that<\/p>\n<p>A) all agreed upon controls that are uniform in nature will be implemented without any delay<\/p>\n<p>B) all fish foods that will be the subject of controls are known to actually cause environmental damage off the coast of Maine<\/p>\n<p>C) the meeting participants favoring uniform controls are primarily from an industry that completes with the salmon farmers<\/p>\n<p>D) all of the chemicals that are ingredients in some of the controlled substances are known to cause environmental damage<\/p>\n<p>E) the environmental damage that has historically been caused by the dangerous fish foods is not reversible in the foreseeable future, if ever<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/at-a-recent-meeting-on-enviromental-threats-off-the-coast-of-116362.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- B -<\/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 Romi has a collection of 10 distinct books out of which 8 are small and 2 are large. 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