{"id":3242,"date":"2010-05-26T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2010-05-26T02:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T10:43:22","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-may-26-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-may-26-coordinate-geometry-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (May 26): Coordinate Geometry and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the area of a triangle with the following vertices <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=L%281%2C+3%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='L(1, 3)' title='L(1, 3)' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=M%285%2C+1%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='M(5, 1)' title='M(5, 1)' class='latex' \/> , and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=N%283%2C+5%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='N(3, 5)' title='N(3, 5)' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 3<br \/>\n(B) 4<br \/>\n(C) 5<br \/>\n(D) 6<br \/>\n(E) 7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m06-q9-72820.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students in the metropolitan school district <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming<\/span> ever more dependent on information-based industries.<\/p>\n<p>(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming<br \/>\n(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city\u2019s economy that becomes<br \/>\n(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city\u2019s economy that becomes<br \/>\n(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city\u2019s economy becoming<br \/>\n(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/students-79092.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) What is the area of a triangle with the following vertices , , and ? (A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7 OA and Explanation&#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-3242","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\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}