{"id":5366,"date":"2010-12-09T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2010-12-07T04:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:56:21","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-9-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-9-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 9): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=p%5E2+%3E+q%5E2&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='p^2 &gt; q^2' title='p^2 &gt; q^2' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=p+%3E+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='p &gt; 0' title='p &gt; 0' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=q+%3E+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='q &gt; 0' title='q &gt; 0' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m02-q11-ds-69415.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the earliest stages of the common law, a party could have a case heard by a judge only upon the payment of a fee to the court, and then only if the case fit within one of the forms for which there existed a writ. At first the number of such formalized cases of action was very small, but judges invented new forms which brought more cases and greater revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following conclusions is most strongly suggested by the paragraph above?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Early judges often decided cases in an arbitrary and haphazard manner.<br \/>\n(B) In most early cases, the plaintiff rather than the defendant prevailed.<br \/>\n(C) The judiciary at first had greater power than either the legislature or the executive.<br \/>\n(D) One of the motivating forces for the early expansion in judicial power was economic considerations.<br \/>\n(E) The first common law decisions were inconsistent with one another and did not form a coherent body of law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-judges-75757.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) Is ? 1. 2. OA and Explanation Verbal (CR) In the earliest stages of the common law, a party could have a case heard by a judge only&#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-5366","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\/5366","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=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}