{"id":3980,"date":"2010-08-03T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2010-08-03T03:25:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:25:25","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-aug-3-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-aug-3-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Aug 3): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the value of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=X&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='X' title='X' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=X&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='X' title='X' class='latex' \/> is a mode of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5B3%2C+0%2C+1%2C+-1%2C+0%2C+5%2C+1%5D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='[3, 0, 1, -1, 0, 5, 1]' title='[3, 0, 1, -1, 0, 5, 1]' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=X&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='X' title='X' class='latex' \/> is neither positive nor negative<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/ds-mode-m05q32-69777.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw wrote: That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw's statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit<br \/>\n(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population<br \/>\n(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins<br \/>\n(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share<br \/>\n(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples basic needs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-george-bernard-shaw-wrote-66958.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) What is the value of ? 1. is a mode of 2. is neither positive nor negative OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) George Bernard Shaw wrote: That any&#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-3980","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\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}