{"id":4447,"date":"2010-09-21T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2010-09-21T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:58:30","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-21-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-21-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Sep 21): Algebra and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Z&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Z' title='Z' class='latex' \/> is an integer, what is the value of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Z&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Z' title='Z' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Z%5E2+%5Cle+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Z^2 \\le 0' title='Z^2 \\le 0' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=Z%5E3+%5Cle+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='Z^3 \\le 0' title='Z^3 \\le 0' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m01-72946.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time we stopped searching for new statistics to suggest that we are not spending enough on education. In fact, education spending increased 30 percent overall during the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Despite increased spending on education, enrollment in our elementary and secondary schools declined about 4 percent during the last ten years.<br \/>\n(B) Our spending on gasoline increased more than 100 percent during the last decade.<br \/>\n(C) When adjusted for inflation, our per-pupil expenditure on education this year is less than it was ten years ago.<br \/>\n(D) Eleven other economically developed nations spend more on education than we do.<br \/>\n(E) The achievement levels of our students have been declining steadily since 1960, and the last decade produced no reversal in this trend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-education-statistics-68216.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) If is an integer, what is the value of ? 1. 2. OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) It\u2019s time we stopped searching for new statistics to suggest that&#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-4447","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\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}