{"id":6935,"date":"2011-04-18T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2011-04-18T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:50:09","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-18-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-18-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Apr 18): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A%5E7+B%5E2+C%5E3+%3E+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' title='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>   1. $latex BC < 0$\n   2. $latex AC > 0$<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m11-75085.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\">In the spirit of Earth Day, save $240 on Knewton's full GMAT Prep Course. Study anytime, anywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/budurl.com\/nzem\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Sign up!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">MBAAdmit.com offers \"Excellence at an Very Affordable Price\". For a GMAT Club discount on services, mention code: GMATCL311. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/budurl.com\/MBAAdmitPE\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Sign up!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frieda: Lightning causes fires and damages electronic equipment. Since lightning rods can prevent any major damage, every building should have one.<\/p>\n<p>Erik: Your recommendation is pointless. It is true that lightning occasionally causes fires, but faulty wiring and overloaded circuits cause far more fires and damage to equipment than lightning does.<\/p>\n<p>Erik\u2019s response fails to establish that Frieda\u2019s recommendation should not be acted on because his response<\/p>\n<p>(A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda\u2019s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage<br \/>\n(B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning<br \/>\n(C) appeals to Frieda\u2019s emotions rather than to her reason<br \/>\n(D) introduces an irrelevant comparison between overloaded circuits and faulty wiring<br \/>\n(E) confuses the notion of preventing damage with that of causing inconvenience<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/electronic-equipment-78797.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) Is ? 1. $latex BC < 0$ 2. $latex AC > 0$ OA and Explanation GMAT Daily Deals In the spirit of Earth Day, save $240 on Knewton&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,721,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-data-sufficiency-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}