{"id":4638,"date":"2010-10-07T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2010-10-07T03:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:04:36","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-7-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-7-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Oct 7): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One fisherman was telling his friends that he caught a fish that had a 60 foot long head. It also had a tail that was as long as the fish's head and a half of its body. Finally, the body was half the size of the whole fish. What is the length of this fish?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 120<br \/>\n(B) 200<br \/>\n(C) 240<br \/>\n(D) 400<br \/>\n(E) 480<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m04-36-ambiguous-sentence-75581.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praise for its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(A) It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praise for its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal.<br \/>\n(B) It was only after Katharine Graham's becoming publisher of The Washington Post in 1963  that it moved into the first rank of American newspaper, and under her command it had  won high praise<br \/>\n(C) Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963, and only after that<br \/>\ndid it move into the first rank of American newspapers, having won high praise under her command<br \/>\n(D) Moving into the first rank of American newspaper only after Katharine Graham became<br \/>\nits publisher in 1963, The Washington Post, winning high praise under her command<br \/>\n(E)  Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham's becoming its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post won high praise under her command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/toughest-sc-84842.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) One fisherman was telling his friends that he caught a fish that had a 60 foot long head. It also had a tail that was as long as&#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-4638","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\/4638","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=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}