{"id":3161,"date":"2010-05-12T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2010-05-12T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:26:18","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-may-12-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-may-12-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (May 12): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year, the sum of ages of the Perkins family members is 78. Currently, there are 4 members: husband, wife, daughter, and son. The husband is 4 years older than the wife. The daughter is two years older than the son. If the husband is 7 times older than the son, how old is the daughter?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 5<br \/>\n(B) 7<br \/>\n(C) 10<br \/>\n(D) 13<br \/>\n(E) 14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/age-problem-m03q13-74810.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Based on the writings of various long-dead pilgrims<\/span>, textbook authors have painted a questionable portrait of the lifestyles of the Native American tribes that existed in America during the early colonization period.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Based on the writings of various long-dead pilgrims<br \/>\n(B) Basing it on long-dead pilgrims' writings<br \/>\n(C) With writings of long-dead pilgrims used for a basis<br \/>\n(D) By the writings of long-dead pilgrims they used<br \/>\n(E) Using writings of long-dead pilgrims<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-misplaced-modifier-78419.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) This year, the sum of ages of the Perkins family members is 78. Currently, there are 4 members: husband, wife, daughter, and son. The husband is 4 years&#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-3161","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\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}