{"id":8095,"date":"2011-07-28T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2011-07-28T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:44:00","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-28-word-problem-and-sentence-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-jul-28-word-problem-and-sentence-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Jul 28): Word Problem and Sentence Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kate and David each have $10. Together they flip a coin 5 times. Every time the coin lands on heads, Kate gives David $1. Every time the coin lands on tails, David gives Kate $1. After the coin is flipped 5 times, what is the probability that Kate has more than $10 but less than $15.<\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B5%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{5}{16}' title='\\frac{5}{16}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B15%7D%7B32%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{15}{32}' title='\\frac{15}{32}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{1}{2}' title='\\frac{1}{2}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B21%7D%7B32%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{21}{32}' title='\\frac{21}{32}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cfrac%7B11%7D%7B16%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\frac{11}{16}' title='\\frac{11}{16}' class='latex' \/><\/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\">Take a very brief survey for Veritas Prep (2 min max!) on the MBA Admissions process and enter to win an iPad 2! <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/survey.constantcontact.com\/survey\/a07e4ayyr9zgpvj6mzl\/start\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Take the survey now!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Precision Essay's Ding Analysis is absolutely FREE! Mention GMAT Club and purchase a Precision Essay school package to save! <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/300-discount-on-precision-essay-ding-analysis-117457.html\" 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>An international group of more than 2,000 scientists <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">project an average global warming that will be between 1.8 and<\/span> 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>(A) project an average global warming that will be between 1.8 and<br \/>\n(B) project an average global warming to be from 1.8 to<br \/>\n(C) project global warming that will average between 1.8 and<br \/>\n(D) projects global warming to average from 1.8 to<br \/>\n(E) projects an average global warming of between 1.8 and<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>B<\/strong>, <strong>E<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m05-q17-probability-combination-70384.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/sc-global-warming-82352.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) Kate and David each have $10. Together they flip a coin 5 times. Every time the coin lands on heads, Kate gives David $1. Every time the coin&#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-8095","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\/8095","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=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}