{"id":44816,"date":"2019-03-06T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=44816"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:20:08","slug":"question-of-the-day-march-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/question-of-the-day-march-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day (March 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Verbal<\/h2>\n<p>The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than<\/span>\u00a0when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970's.<\/p>\n<p>(A) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than<br \/>\n(B) extinction; its numbers are now five times more than<br \/>\n(C) extinction, their numbers now fivefold what they were<br \/>\n(D) extinction, now with fivefold the numbers they had<br \/>\n(E) extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than what they were<\/p>\n<div class=\"item text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/the-gyrfalcon-an-arctic-bird-of-prey-has-survived-a-close-brush-with-134552.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A\u00a0<\/span>-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/transgenic-agriculture-is-the-use-of-genetically-modified-crops-to-238662.html\"><strong>Bonus RC Question of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Quant<\/h2>\n<p>Three piles of 7 beans each are to be made from 10 red, 5 yellow, and 6 green beans. If all of the beans must be used and each stack must contain at least one bean of each color, then what is the maximum number of red beans that can be put in one of the stacks?<\/p>\n<p>A. 5<br \/>\nB. 6<br \/>\nC. 8<br \/>\nD. 9<br \/>\nE. 10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m01-183525.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A\u00a0<\/span>-\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 gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with\u00a0extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than\u00a0when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in&#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-44816","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\/44816","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=44816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44821,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44816\/revisions\/44821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}