{"id":3202,"date":"2010-05-20T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2010-05-20T02:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:59:06","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-may-20-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-may-20-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (May 20): Probability and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The probability that a visitor at the mall buys a pack of candy is 30%. If three visitors come to the mall today, what is the probability that exactly two will buy a pack of candy?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 0.343<br \/>\n(B) 0.147<br \/>\n(C) 0.189<br \/>\n(D) 0.063<br \/>\n(E) 0.027<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m04-q9-74075.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Between 1990 and 2000 the global economy grew more than it did during the 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture<\/span> to 1950.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Between 1990 and 2000 the global economy grew more than it did during the 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture<br \/>\n(B) Between 1990 and 2000 the growth of the global economy was more than that during 10,000 years, from when agriculture began<br \/>\n(C) The growth of the global economy between 1990 and 2000 exceeds that which had been for 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture<br \/>\n(D) The growth of the global economy between 1990 and 2000 exceeds what it has been for 10,000 years, from when agriculture began<br \/>\n(E) The growth of the global economy between 1990 and 2000 exceeded what it did for the 10,000 years from the beginning of agriculture<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-global-economy-24214.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) The probability that a visitor at the mall buys a pack of candy is 30%. If three visitors come to the mall today, what is the probability that&#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-3202","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\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}