{"id":4552,"date":"2010-09-30T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2010-09-30T03:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:56:59","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-30-arithmetic-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-sep-30-arithmetic-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Sep 30): Arithmetic and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A computer generated a sequence <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A' title='A' class='latex' \/> of numbers using the following formula:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A_n+%3D+A_1+%2B+%28n-1%29d&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A_n = A_1 + (n-1)d' title='A_n = A_1 + (n-1)d' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=d&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='d' title='d' class='latex' \/> is the common difference between any two consecutive terms of the sequence <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A' title='A' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p>If the sum of the second and the fifth terms of the sequence is 8 and the sum of the third and the seventh terms is 14, what is the first term of the sequence?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 3<br \/>\n(B) 2<br \/>\n(C) 1<br \/>\n(D) -1<br \/>\n(E) -3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m03-76575.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The capital of <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo\u2019s population<\/span> on the eve of the First World War was 51,919.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo\u2019s population<br \/>\n(B) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, whose population<br \/>\n(C) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, with a population<br \/>\n(D) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo having a population that<br \/>\n(E) Bosnia-Herzegovina, the population of Sarajevo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/capital-of-bosnia-herzegovina-84385.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) A computer generated a sequence of numbers using the following formula: is the common difference between any two consecutive terms of the sequence If the sum of the&#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-4552","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\/4552","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=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}