{"id":3814,"date":"2010-07-21T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2010-07-21T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T10:59:18","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-21-counting-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-21-counting-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jul 21): Counting and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The choir consists of 5 boys and 6 girls. In how many ways can the singers be arranged in a row, so that all the boys are together? Do not differentiate between arrangements that are obtained by swapping two boys or two girls.<\/p>\n<p>(A) 120<br \/>\n(B) 30<br \/>\n(C) 24<br \/>\n(D) 11<br \/>\n(E) 7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/choir-of-5-boys-and-6-girls-75428.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A valid argument is often defined as one in which it is not possible for all the premises to be true and the conclusion false. A circular argument is sometimes defined as one in which one of the premises is identical to the conclusion. From these definitions we can infer that...<\/p>\n<p>(A) Every circular argument is valid as long as its premises are true.<br \/>\n(B) Every valid argument is circular.<br \/>\n(C) No circular argument is valid.<br \/>\n(D) Some circular arguments are valid, and some are not.<br \/>\n(E) Some circular arguments are not valid, and some valid arguments are not circular. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-circular-argument-66352.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) The choir consists of 5 boys and 6 girls. In how many ways can the singers be arranged in a row, so that all the boys are together?&#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-3814","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\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}