{"id":4253,"date":"2010-09-01T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2010-09-01T03:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:39:36","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-1-algebra-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-1-algebra-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Sep 1): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The safety distance <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='D' title='D' class='latex' \/> (meters) between cars moving on a motorway depends on their speed <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=V&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='V' title='V' class='latex' \/> (meters per second):<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=D+%3D+%5Cfrac%7BV%5E2%7D%7B100%7D+%2B+9&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='D = \\frac{V^2}{100} + 9' title='D = \\frac{V^2}{100} + 9' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p>If two cars want to maintain a time interval of 1 second between each other, which of the following speeds will breach the safety regulation?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 5 m\/s<br \/>\n(B) 10 m\/s<br \/>\n(C) 25 m\/s<br \/>\n(D) 50 m\/s<br \/>\n(E) 90 m\/s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m09-79520.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neither a rising standard of living nor balanced trade, by itself, establishes a country's ability to compete in the international marketplace. Both are required simultaneously since standards of living can rise because of growing trade deficits and trade can be balanced by means of a decline in a country's standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>If the facts stated in the passage above are true, a proper test of a country's ability to be competitive is its ability to<\/p>\n<p>(A) balance its trade while its standard of living rises<br \/>\n(B) balance its trade while its standard of living falls<br \/>\n(C) increase trade deficits while its standard of living rises<br \/>\n(D) decrease trade deficits while its standard of living falls<br \/>\n(E) keep its standard of living constant while trade deficits rise<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-standard-of-living-67740.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) The safety distance (meters) between cars moving on a motorway depends on their speed (meters per second): If two cars want to maintain a time interval of 1&#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-4253","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\/4253","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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}