{"id":6518,"date":"2011-03-09T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2011-03-09T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:12:07","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-mar-9-statistics-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-mar-9-statistics-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Mar 9): Statistics and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the mean of four consecutive even integers <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=a&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='a' title='a' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=b&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='b' title='b' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=c&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='c' title='c' class='latex' \/> , <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=d&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='d' title='d' class='latex' \/>? <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=a&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='a' title='a' class='latex' \/> is the smallest of the four integers.<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=a+%2B+d+%3D+b+%2B+c&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='a + d = b + c' title='a + d = b + c' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=b+%2B+c+%3D+d+-+a&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='b + c = d - a' title='b + c = d - a' class='latex' \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m18-q14-needs-clarification-70373.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgb(141, 179, 226); border-top: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 5px; margin-left: 20px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Gergia,serif; font-weight: bold\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px\">GMAT Daily Deals<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Need help with your MBA School application? 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Jetzt registrieren unter <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/ZurichMBA\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>https:\/\/bit.ly\/ZurichMBA<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, vacationers account for more than half of all visitors to what are technically called \u201cpure aquariums\u201d but for fewer than one quarter of all visitors to zoos, which usually include a \u201czoo aquarium\u201d of relatively modest scope.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the difference described above between visitors to zoos and visitors to pure aquariums?<\/p>\n<p>(A) In cities that have both a zoo and a pure aquarium, local residents are twice as likely to visit the aquarium as they are to visit the zoo.<br \/>\n(B) Virtually all large metropolitan areas have zoos, whereas only a few large metropolitan areas have pure aquariums.<br \/>\n(C) Over the last ten years, newly constructed pure aquariums have outnumbered newly established zoos by a factor of two to one.<br \/>\n(D) People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium that year than are people who do not visit a zoo.<br \/>\n(E) The zoo aquariums of zoos that are in the same city as a pure aquarium tend to be smaller than the aquariums of zoos that have no pure aquarium nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-zoo-aquariums-tricky-for-me-76884.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong> Get the GMAT Club question collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests\/\">online at GMAT Club<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FGMAT-Club%2FB0048PPF3U%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dntt_athr_dp_pel_1&tag=gmatclub-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957\">on your Kindle<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fgmat-toolkit%252Fid328345537%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">on your iPhone\/iPad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) What is the mean of four consecutive even integers , , , ? is the smallest of the four integers. 1. 2. 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