{"id":4066,"date":"2010-08-11T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2010-08-06T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:52:06","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-aug-11-mixture-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-aug-11-mixture-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Aug 11): Mixture Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make lemonade, a recipe requires 4 lemons, 30 ounces of sugar, and 2 pints of water. One can squeeze out 0.4 cups of 5% citric acid from an average lemon. Marta does not have lemons, but wants to make lemonade from 4 cups of 12% citric acid. She has sugar and water in abundance. How much water will Marta use?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 2 pt.<br \/>\n(B) 6 pt.<br \/>\n(C) 12 pt.<br \/>\n(D) 15 pt.<br \/>\n(E) 100 pt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m07-72458.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">people in France consume fatty foods at a rate comparable to the United States, their<\/span> death rates from heart disease are far lower in France.<\/p>\n<p>(A) people in France consume fatty foods at a rate comparable to the United States, their<br \/>\n(B) people in France and the United States consume fatty foods at about the same rate, the<br \/>\n(C) fatty foods are consumed by people in France at a comparable rate to the United States\u2019s, their<br \/>\n(D) the rate of fatty foods consumed in France and the United States is about the same, the<br \/>\n(E) the rate of people consuming fatty foods is about the same in France and the United States, the<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/france-52828.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) To make lemonade, a recipe requires 4 lemons, 30 ounces of sugar, and 2 pints of water. One can squeeze out 0.4 cups of 5% citric acid from&#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-4066","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\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}