{"id":2875,"date":"2010-04-14T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2010-04-14T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:04:16","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-14-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-14-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Apr 14): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A%5E7+B%5E2+C%5E3+%3E+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' title='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>   1. $latex BC < 0$\n   2. $latex AC > 0$<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m11-75085.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frieda: Lightning causes fires and damages electronic equipment. Since lightning rods can prevent any major damage, every building should have one.<\/p>\n<p>Erik: Your recommendation is pointless. It is true that lightning occasionally causes fires, but faulty wiring and overloaded circuits cause far more fires and damage to equipment than lightning does.<\/p>\n<p>Erik\u2019s response fails to establish that Frieda\u2019s recommendation should not be acted on because his response<\/p>\n<p>(A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda\u2019s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage<br \/>\n(B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning<br \/>\n(C) appeals to Frieda\u2019s emotions rather than to her reason<br \/>\n(D) introduces an irrelevant comparison between overloaded circuits and faulty wiring<br \/>\n(E) confuses the notion of preventing damage with that of causing inconvenience<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/electronic-equipment-78797.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) Is ? 1. $latex BC < 0$ 2. $latex AC > 0$ OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) Frieda: Lightning causes fires and damages electronic equipment. Since lightning rods&#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-2875","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\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}