{"id":7813,"date":"2011-07-08T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2011-07-08T03:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:44:27","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-8-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-8-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jul 8): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is $latex M < 0$?\n\n   1. $latex -M = |-M|$\n   2. $latex M^2 = 9$\n\n\n\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\">For a limited time, receive access to five Veritas Prep Computer Adaptive practice tests when you purchase a Veritas Prep GMAT book! <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/www.veritasprep.com\/gmat-prep-books\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Learn more!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">MBA Admit.com Special for GMAT Club Members-Gold pkg is only $1095. Mention code GMATCL611. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/\" 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>Among people experience migraine headaches, some experience what doctors call\"common\" migraines, whereas others experience \"classical\" migraines. Siblings and spouses of common migraine sufferers are themselves twice as likely as the general population to experience common migraines. Siblings of classical migraine sufferers are four times more likely than the general population to experience classical migraines, whereas spouses of classical migraine suferers are no more likely than the general population to experience such headaches. <\/p>\n<p>The information above provides the most support for which of the following hypotheses?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Susceptibility to classical migraines is more dependent on hereditary factors than is susceptibility to common migraines.<br \/>\n(B) Unmarried adults are more likely to suffer from classical migraines than they are to suffer from common migraines.<br \/>\n(C) People who do not experience migraine headaches are unlikely to have spouses who are migraine headache sufferers.<br \/>\n(D) Children of people who suffer from common migraines are more likely than the general population to experience a common migraine.<br \/>\n(E) Between one-quarter and one-half of the general population suffer from either common or classical migraine headaches.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>C<\/strong>, <strong>A<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m01-q17-70389.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-common-vs-classical-migraines-65568.html\">verbal<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/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=blog&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 $latex M < 0$? 1. $latex -M = |-M|$ 2. $latex M^2 = 9$ GMAT Daily Deals For a limited time, receive access to five Veritas Prep&#8230;\n<\/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-7813","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\/7813","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=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7814,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}