{"id":3101,"date":"2010-05-06T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2010-05-06T02:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:18:50","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-may-6-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-may-6-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (May 6): Coordinate Geometry and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Point <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%281%2C+0%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(1, 0)' title='(1, 0)' class='latex' \/> is closest to which of the following lines?<\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y+%3D+x&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y = x' title='y = x' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y+%3D+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y = 1' title='y = 1' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=y+%2B+x+%3D+3&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='y + x = 3' title='y + x = 3' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x+%3D+2&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x = 2' title='x = 2' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=x+%2B+y+%3D+-1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='x + y = -1' title='x + y = -1' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m24-73371.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(A) on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone<br \/>\n(B) on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone<br \/>\n(C) solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided<br \/>\n(D) while the duplication of facilities should be avoided<br \/>\n(E) if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-tough-67332.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) Point is closest to which of the following lines? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) OA and Explanation Verbal (SC) Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would&#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-3101","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\/3101","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=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}