{"id":43676,"date":"2018-10-17T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=43676"},"modified":"2018-10-13T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:25:43","slug":"question-of-the-day-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/question-of-the-day-october-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day (October 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Verbal<\/h2>\n<div class=\"item text\">\n<p>The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">had expected it to and its business will improve<\/span>\u00a0in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>(A) had expected it to and its business will improve<br \/>\n(B) had expected and that its business would improve<br \/>\n(C) expected it would and that it will improve its business<br \/>\n(D) expected them to and its business would improve<br \/>\n(E) expected and that it will have improved its business<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/qotd-the-company-announced-that-its-profits-251575.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0- <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">B<\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/in-the-fourteenth-and-fifteenth-centuries-many-western-pueb-167570.html\"><strong>Bonus RC Question of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Quant<\/h2>\n<p>If <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?x\" alt=\"x\" class=\"latex\"> and <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?y\" alt=\"y\" class=\"latex\"> are positive integers and <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7Bx%7D%7By%7D\" alt=\"\\frac{x}{y}\" class=\"latex\"> is an even integer, which of the following cannot be an odd integer?<\/p>\n<p>A. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?y\" alt=\"y\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nB. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?x%20%2B%20y\" alt=\"x + y\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nC. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?y%20-%201\" alt=\"y - 1\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nD. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?xy\" alt=\"xy\" class=\"latex\"><br \/>\nE. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?y%5E2\" alt=\"y^2\" class=\"latex\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m28-184505.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0- <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">D<\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong>\u00a0Get the\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests-beta\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494346763458000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPuQLeF_71bLsXGDQ7KbNaq3jUAA\">GMAT Club CAT\u2019s<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verbal The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts\u00a0had expected it to and its business will improve\u00a0in the second half of the year.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43681,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43676\/revisions\/43681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}