{"id":5032,"date":"2010-11-11T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2010-11-11T03:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T11:48:47","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-nov-11-geometry-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-nov-11-geometry-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Nov 11): Geometry and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If quadrilateral <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=ABCD&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='ABCD' title='ABCD' class='latex' \/> is inscribed into a circle, what is the value of <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cangle+BAD&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\angle BAD' title='\\angle BAD' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=AC+%3D+CD&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='AC = CD' title='AC = CD' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cangle+ADC+%3D+70%5E%5Ccirc&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\angle ADC = 70^\\circ' title='\\angle ADC = 70^\\circ' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m04-q7-77757.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayor of Plainsville: In order to help the economy of Plainsville, I am using some of our tax revenues to help bring a major highway through the town and thereby attract new business to Plainsville.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens\u2019 group: You must have interests other than our economy in mind. If you were really interested in helping our economy, you would instead allocate the revenues to building a new business park, since it would bring in twice the business that your highway would.<\/p>\n<p>The argument by the citizens\u2019 group relies on which one of the following assumptions?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Plainsville presently has no major highways running through it.<br \/>\n(B) The mayor accepts that a new business park would bring in more new business than would the new highway.<br \/>\n(C) The new highway would have no benefits for Plainsville other than attracting new business.<br \/>\n(D) The mayor is required to get approval for all tax revenue allocation plans from the city council.<br \/>\n(E) Plainsville\u2019s economy will not be helped unless a new business park of the sort envisioned by the citizens\u2019 group is built.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-mayor-of-plainsville-69548.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) If quadrilateral is inscribed into a circle, what is the value of ? 1. 2. OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) Mayor of Plainsville: In order to help 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-5032","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\/5032","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=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}