{"id":44774,"date":"2019-02-25T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=44774"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:00:10","slug":"question-of-the-day-february-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/question-of-the-day-february-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day (February 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Quant<\/h2>\n<p>A ship is transporting several cats and a crew (sailors, a cook, and a one-legged captain) to a nearby port. If these passengers combined have 15 heads and 41 legs, then how many cats is the ship transporting?<\/p>\n<p>A. 3<br \/>\nB. 5<br \/>\nC. 6<br \/>\nD. 7<br \/>\nE. 8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m01-183518.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">C<\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Verbal<\/h2>\n<div class=\"item timer\">\n<div class=\"timerHide\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(A) The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.<br \/>\n(B) To the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote two letters, being the only eyewitness accounts of the great eruption of Vesuvius.<br \/>\n(C) The only eyewitness account is in two letters by the nephew of Pliny the Elder writing to the historian Tacitus an account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.<br \/>\n(D) Writing the only eyewitness account, Pliny the Elder\u2019s nephew accounted for the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.<br \/>\n(E) In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/the-nephew-of-pliny-the-elder-wrote-the-only-eyewitness-account-of-the-85872.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">E<\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/the-recurring-theme-of-equality-in-the-united-states-has-flared-278889.html\"><strong>Bonus RC Question of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\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>Quant A ship is transporting several cats and a crew (sailors, a cook, and a one-legged captain) to a nearby port. If these passengers combined have 15 heads and 41&#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-44774","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\/44774","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=44774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44783,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44774\/revisions\/44783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}