{"id":5350,"date":"2010-12-06T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2010-12-06T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:56:15","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-3-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 6): Word Problem and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. If the same steamer going downstream would cover the distance between the towns in 3 hours, how long would it take a raft moving at the speed of the current to float from town B to town A?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 10 hours<br \/>\n(B) 12 hours<br \/>\n(C) 15 hours<br \/>\n(D) 18 hours<br \/>\n(E) 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m10-72476.html\">OA and discussion<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist: The use of snowmobiles in the vast park north of Milville creates unacceptable levels of air pollution and should be banned.<\/p>\n<p>Milville business spokesperson: Snowmobiling brings many out-of-towners to Milville in winter months, to the great financial benefit of many local residents. So, economics dictate that we put up with the pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist: I disagree: A great many cross-country skiers are now kept from visiting Milville by the noise and pollution that snowmobiles generate.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist responds to the business spokesperson by doing which of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome can derive from only one set of circumstances<br \/>\n(B) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative aspects associated with producing that outcome<br \/>\n(C) Maintaining that the benefit that the spokesperson desires could be achieved in greater degree by a different means<br \/>\n(D) Claiming that the spokesperson is deliberately misrepresenting the environmentalist<br \/>\n(E) Denying that an effect that the spokesperson presents as having benefited a certain group of people actually benefited those people<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-tough-one-milville-24740.html\">OA and discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) A steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. If the same steamer going downstream would cover&#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-5350","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\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}