{"id":32602,"date":"2016-04-06T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=32602"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T00:50:16","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-april-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-april-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (April 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a retailer increased the price for commodity A by 30% but had to sell all his stock of commodity A at a 20% discount, what was the actual increase in the price of commodity A?<\/p>\n<p>A. 2%<br \/>\nB. 4%<br \/>\nC. 5%<br \/>\nD. 7%<br \/>\nE. 8%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m09-183838.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color: #fff; color: #fff;\">- B\u00a0-<\/span>\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #8db3e2; border-top: 4px solid #000000; border-bottom: 4px solid #000000; padding: 5px; margin-left: 20px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Gergia,serif; font-weight: bold;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; color: #ffffff; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">GMAT Daily Deals<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: #ffffff; list-style-type: disc;\">Manhattan GMAT: 99 percentile teachers and superior curriculum at a more affordable price. Save @ GMAT Club.<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/manhattan-gmat-discount-promotion-code\/?fl=twitter\"> <u>Save $350!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: #ffffff; list-style-type: disc;\">There's still a little time to save $50 on mbaMission Application Writing Bootcamps - Learn More.<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/mbamission\/?fl=twitter\"> <u>Learn More<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: #ffffff; list-style-type: disc;\">The Princeton Review teaches both material &amp; testing strategies - not just the answers. Save $350 @ GMAT Club.<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/princeton-review-gmat-discount-promotion-code\/?fl=twitter\">\u00a0<u>Learn More!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 10px 0pt 0px 20px; color: #ffffff; list-style-type: disc;\">Like our Question of the Day? Sign up for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&amp;subid=&amp;offerid=216481.1&amp;type=10&amp;tmpid=9961&amp;RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaptest.com%2Fgmat%2Fgmat-practice%2Ffree-gmat-practice-question-a-day\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><u>Kaplan's Free Question a Day<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Verbal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response to years of increasing congestion at airport X, the government decided to redistribute landing slots. Henceforth, all international flights arriving from continent A would be rerouted to nearby airport Y, all flights arriving from continent B would continue to land at airport X. Several airlines opposed this measure on the grounds that it would result in lost business.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following, if true, justifies the airline\u2019s conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>(A) The airlines\u2019 customers prefer less congested airports.<br \/>\n(B) It takes five minutes more flying time to reach the second<br \/>\nairport.<br \/>\n(C) There are fewer runways, and thus less capacity, at airport Y.<br \/>\n(D) Airport Y is located in a region with better transport links to the<br \/>\nfinal destinations of many travelers from continent B.<br \/>\n(E) Many customers traveling between continent A and continent<br \/>\nB choose certain airlines because of the easy flight<br \/>\nconnections they offer at airport X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/in-response-to-years-of-increasing-congestion-at-airport-x-135660.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color: #fff; color: #fff;\">- A\u00a0-<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong> Get the GMAT Club question collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests\/\">online at GMAT Club<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FGMAT-Club%2FB0048PPF3U%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dntt_athr_dp_pel_1&amp;tag=gmatclub-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">on your Kindle<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=blog&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fgmat-toolkit%252Fid328345537%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">on your iPhone\/iPad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/gmat-tests\/\"><strong>Browse all GMAT Questions of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to GMAT Question of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GMAT-Question-of-the-day&amp;loc=en_US\">E-mail<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GMAT-Question-of-the-day\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math If a retailer increased the price for commodity A by 30% but had to sell all his stock of commodity A at a 20% discount, what was the actual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32607,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602\/revisions\/32607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}