{"id":4844,"date":"2010-10-27T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2010-10-27T01:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:40:22","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-27-combinations-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-27-combinations-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Oct 27): Combinations and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4 women and 6 men work in the accounting department. In how many ways can a committee of 3 be formed if it has to include at least one woman?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 36<br \/>\n(B) 60<br \/>\n(C) 72<br \/>\n(D) 80<br \/>\n(E) 100<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/combi-ques-m08q04-68227.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reviewing historical data, medical researchers in California found that counties with the largest number of television sets per capita have had the lowest incidence of a serious brain disease, mosquito-borne encephalitis. The researchers have concluded that people in these counties stay indoors more and thus avoid exposure to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers' conclusion would be most strengthened if which of the following were true?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Programs designed to control the size of disease-bearing mosquito populations have not affected the incidence of mosquito borne encephalitis.<br \/>\n(B) The occupations of county residents affect their risk of exposure to mosquito-borne encephalitis more than does television-watching.<br \/>\n(C) The incidence of mosquito-borne encephalitis in counties with the largest number of television sets per capita is likely to decrease even further.<br \/>\n(D) The more time people in a county spend outdoors, the greater their awareness of the dangers of mosquito-borne encephalitis.<br \/>\n(E) The more television sets there are per capita in a county, the more time the average county resident spends watching television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-medical-researchers-69709.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) 4 women and 6 men work in the accounting department. In how many ways can a committee of 3 be formed if it has to include at least&#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-4844","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\/4844","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=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}