{"id":3365,"date":"2010-06-08T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2010-06-08T00:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:32:03","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jun-8-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jun-8-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jun 8): Word Problem and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the power of an engine grows by 10% when the number of its cylinders is increased by one, which of the following is closest to the ratio of the power of a 9-cylinder engine to that of a 12-cylinder engine?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 0.69<br \/>\n(B) 0.71<br \/>\n(C) 0.72<br \/>\n(D) 0.75<br \/>\n(E) 0.78<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m09-94950.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A certain moral system holds that performing good actions is praiseworthy only when one overcomes a powerful temptation in order to perform them. Yet this same moral system also holds that performing good actions out of habit is sometimes praiseworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Which one of the following, if true, does the most to reconcile the apparent conflict in the moral system described above?<\/p>\n<p>(A) People who perform good actions out of habit have often acquired this habit after years of having resisted temptation.<br \/>\n(B) Most people face strong moral temptation from time to time but few people have to endure it regularly.<br \/>\n(C) People virtually always perform actions they think are good, regardless of what other people may think.<br \/>\n(D) Since it is difficult to tell what is going on in another person\u2019s mind, it is often hard to know exactly how strongly a person is tempted.<br \/>\n(E) It is far more common for people to perform good actions out of habit than for them to do so against strong temptation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-question-64528.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) If the power of an engine grows by 10% when the number of its cylinders is increased by one, which of the following is closest to the ratio&#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-3365","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\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}