{"id":2789,"date":"2010-04-05T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2010-04-05T02:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:12:16","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-5-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-5-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Apr 5): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Machine A can produce 50 components a day while machine B only 40. The monthly maintenance cost for machine A is $1500 while that for machine B is $550. If each component generates an income of $10 what is the least number of days per month that the plant has to work to justify the usage of machine A instead of machine B?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 6<br \/>\n(B) 7<br \/>\n(C) 9<br \/>\n(D) 10<br \/>\n(E) 11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/ps-work-m08q10-73532.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An attempt <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,<\/span> has been unsuccessful despite efforts by many important groups, including the National Organization for Women.<\/p>\n<p>(A) to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,<br \/>\n(B) begun almost two decades ago, for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment<br \/>\n(C) begun for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment almost two decades ago<br \/>\n(D) at ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,<br \/>\n(E) that has begun almost two decades ago to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/to-attempt-to-for-77214.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) Machine A can produce 50 components a day while machine B only 40. The monthly maintenance cost for machine A is $1500 while that for machine B is&#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-2789","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\/2789","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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}