{"id":45658,"date":"2019-05-24T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=45658"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:40:47","slug":"question-of-the-day-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/question-of-the-day-may-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day (May 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Quant<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>If <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?n\" alt=\"n\" class=\"latex\"> is an integer, is <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7Bn%5E3%7D%7B16%7D\" alt=\"\\frac{n^3}{16}\" class=\"latex\"> a positive integer?<\/p>\n<p>(1) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7Bn%7D%7B4%7D\" alt=\"\\frac{n}{4}\" class=\"latex\"> is an integer<\/p>\n<p>(2) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/cgi-bin\/mimetex.cgi?%5Cfrac%7Bn%5E2%7D%7B16%7D\" alt=\"\\frac{n^2}{16}\" class=\"latex\"> is a positive integer<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m02-183581.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">E <\/span>-&nbsp;(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n\n\n<p> __________________________________________________________________________ <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Verbal<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Although the discount stores in Goreville central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson's, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson's.<br \/><br \/>Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?<br \/><br \/>(A) Many customers of Colson's are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.<br \/>(B) Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson's opened have been discount stores.<br \/>(C) At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.<br \/>(D) Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville's population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.<br \/>(E) Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson's.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/although-the-discount-stores-in-goreville-s-central-shopping-district-50052.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer<\/strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">B<\/span>\u00a0-\u00a0(click and drag your mouse to see the answer)<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/it-comes-as-no-surprise-that-there-is-little-consensus-among-economist-282946.html\">Bonus RC Question of the Day<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/pythagurus-mba-consulting-scholarships-for-top-mba-applicants-291861.html\"><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong>&nbsp;Get the&nbsp;<strong>GMAT Club CAT\u2019s<\/strong><\/a><!--EndFragment--><!--EndFragment--><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quant If is an integer, is a positive integer? 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