{"id":5362,"date":"2010-12-07T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2010-12-07T04:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:38:39","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-7-probability-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-7-probability-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 7): Probability and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John throws a coin until a series of three consecutive heads or three consecutive tails appears. What is the probability that the game will end after the fourth throw?<\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{1}{16}' title='\\frac{1}{16}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B2%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{2}{16}' title='\\frac{2}{16}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B3%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{3}{16}' title='\\frac{3}{16}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B4%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{4}{16}' title='\\frac{4}{16}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B6%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{6}{16}' title='\\frac{6}{16}' class='latex' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m15-71875.html\">OA and discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent national study of the public schools shows that <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were<\/span> four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>(A) there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were<br \/>\n(B) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were<br \/>\n(C) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were<br \/>\n(D) every thirty-two pupils now have one microcomputer, four times as many than there were<br \/>\n(E) every thirty-two pupils now has one microcomputer, four times as many as<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-8165.html\">OA and discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (PS) John throws a coin until a series of three consecutive heads or three consecutive tails appears. What is the probability that the game will end after the fourth&#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-5362","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\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}