{"id":3913,"date":"2010-07-28T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-07-28T03:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T11:36:35","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-28-combinations-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-28-combinations-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jul 28): Combinations and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carly has 3 movies that she can watch during the weekend: 1 Action movie, 1 Comedy, and 1 Drama. However, she needs to watch the Drama 3 times. Assuming Carly has time for 5 movies and intends to watch all of them, in how many ways can she do so? <\/p>\n<p>(A) 6<br \/>\n(B) 20<br \/>\n(C) 24<br \/>\n(D) 60<br \/>\n(E) 120<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/ps-movies-m05q27-50926.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent study of college students shows that, contrary to predicted results, special nutritional planning does not positively affect students\u2019 grades. Sixty students, half of whom were given a nutritionally balanced diet, had grades no higher than did those students who were not placed on the diet plan.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following, if true, is most useful in determining the accuracy of the study described above?\t<\/p>\n<p>(A) Performance of business executives was shown to improve drastically after major alterations were made in their diets.<br \/>\n(B) Honors students, after altering their diets, maintained that they did not change their study habits.<br \/>\n(C) Students who participated in various fitness regimens found that their grades improved appreciably after they altered their exercise habits.<br \/>\n(D) High school students who previously had low grades found that after they altered their diets, their grades improved dramatically.<br \/>\n(E) All of the college students who volunteered for the study were either in their first or second year of college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-nutrition-study-66755.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) Carly has 3 movies that she can watch during the weekend: 1 Action movie, 1 Comedy, and 1 Drama. However, she needs to watch the Drama 3 times.&#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-3913","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\/3913","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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3915,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}