{"id":2886,"date":"2010-04-16T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2010-04-16T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T08:05:37","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-16-arithmetic-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-16-arithmetic-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Apr 16): Arithmetic and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> is a positive integer, is the number of its divisors smaller than <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=2%2A+%5Clceil+%5Csqrt%7Bx%7D+%5Crceil+-+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='2* \\lceil \\sqrt{x} \\rceil - 1' title='2* \\lceil \\sqrt{x} \\rceil - 1' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Clceil+a+%5Crceil&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\lceil a \\rceil' title='\\lceil a \\rceil' class='latex' \/> is defined as the smallest integer that is not less than <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=a&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='a' title='a' class='latex' \/> .<\/p>\n<p>   1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> is not a square of an integer<br \/>\n   2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x' title='x' class='latex' \/> is prime<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m12-72874.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bankers require that the financial information presented to them by mortgage applicants <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">be complete and follow a prescribed format<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(A) be complete and follow a prescribed format<br \/>\n(B) is complete and it follows a prescribed format<br \/>\n(C) be complete and a prescribed format is followed<br \/>\n(D) to be complete and a prescribed format be followed<br \/>\n(E) be completed, and it followed a prescribed format<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sentence-correction-77166.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) If is a positive integer, is the number of its divisors smaller than ? is defined as the smallest integer that is not less than . 1. 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-2886","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\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}