{"id":3199,"date":"2010-05-19T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2010-05-19T01:51:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T09:51:17","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-may-19-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-may-19-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (May 19): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 10 liter mixture of cranberry juice and water contains juice and water in the ratio of 3 : 2. 5 liters of the mixture are removed and replaced with pure juice and the operation is repeated once more. At the end of the two removals and replacements, what is the ratio of juice to water in the resulting mixture?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 5 : 3<br \/>\n(B) 6 : 4<br \/>\n(C) 8 : 2<br \/>\n(D) 17 : 3<br \/>\n(E) 9 : 1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m04-77884.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The distinctive hereditary tartans <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">that are alleged to be worn<\/span> since antiquity by members of the Highland clans were in fact designed by Scottish woolen manufacturers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>(A) that are alleged to be worn<br \/>\n(B) alleged to have been worn<br \/>\n(C) that are worn, it was alleged<br \/>\n(D) alleged as having been worn<br \/>\n(E) that are worn, allegedly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-distinctive-hereditary-73186.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) A 10 liter mixture of cranberry juice and water contains juice and water in the ratio of 3 : 2. 5 liters of the mixture are removed and&#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-3199","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\/3199","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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}