{"id":7945,"date":"2011-07-18T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2011-07-18T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:51:09","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-18-counting-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-18-counting-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jul 18): Counting and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If one of two parallel lines has 7 points on it and the other has 8, how many triangles can be drawn using the points?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 168<br \/>\n(B) 196<br \/>\n(C) 316<br \/>\n(D) 364<br \/>\n(E) 455<\/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\">Save $100, plus get a $275 bonus offer from GMAT Club when you sign up for a Knewton On-Demand Course. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/www.knewton.com\/gmat\/pricing\/gmatclub\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Register now!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Need help with your MBA School application? Amerasia Consulting offers 15% off when you mention GMAT Club. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/ask-paul-lanzillotti-153\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Learn more!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure<br \/>\n(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure<br \/>\n(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it<br \/>\n(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria<br \/>\n(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>D<\/strong>, <strong>B<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m03-71107.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/strategic-proximity-80694.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 (PS) If one of two parallel lines has 7 points on it and the other has 8, how many triangles can be drawn using the points? (A) 168 (B)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,717,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-problem-solving-gmat","category-sentence-correction-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7947,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}