{"id":4329,"date":"2010-09-10T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2010-09-10T03:52:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T11:52:15","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-10-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-10-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Sep 10): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a fleet of a certain car-renting agency the ratio of the number of sedans to the number of hatchbacks was 9:8. If after the addition of 3 sedans and 1 hatchback, this ratio rose to 6:5, how many more sedans than hatchbacks does the agency have now?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 2<br \/>\n(B) 3<br \/>\n(C) 5<br \/>\n(D) 7<br \/>\n(E) 9<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m21q8-79067.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Although aspirin irritates the stomach, it<\/span> can be avoided if the aspirin tablet is given a coating that will not dissolve until the tablet reaches the intestine.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Although aspirin irritates the stomach, it<br \/>\n(B) The irritation of the stomach caused by aspirin<br \/>\n(C) The fact that aspirin causes irritation of the stomach<br \/>\n(D) Aspirin causes stomach irritation, although it<br \/>\n(E) Aspirin irritates the stomach, which<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/aspirin-irritates-the-stomach-which-73056.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) In a fleet of a certain car-renting agency the ratio of the number of sedans to the number of hatchbacks was 9:8. If after the addition of 3&#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-4329","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\/4329","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=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}