{"id":8904,"date":"2011-10-06T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2011-10-06T03:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:59:28","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-6-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-oct-6-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Oct 6): Word Problem and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A car dealership sold two cars: the first car at a 10% profit and the second car at a 10% loss, which gave them an overall profit margin of 5% from these two sales. If the dealership's total profit was $1000, what was the sale price of each car?<\/p>\n<p>(A) $5,000 and $1,000<br \/>\n(B) $9,000 and $5,000<br \/>\n(C) $11,000 and $9,000<br \/>\n(D) $15,000 and $5,000<br \/>\n(E) $20,000 and $10,000<\/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\">Join Veritas Prep for a free 2-hour online GMAT\/MBA Session. 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The investigators found that overall satisfaction levels at the companies were  high, that the companies enjoyed profit margins averaging over 20% over the last five years, and that the rates of employee departures at these companies had varied between 1% and 5% over this period.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the following conclusions may be drawn from the information above?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Flexible schedules and daycare are important benefits for raising overall levels of employee satisfaction.<br \/>\n(B) High profitability levels for companies with revenues over $100 million are most likely the result of high employee satisfaction levels.<br \/>\n(C) Companies without daycare and flexible-schedule benefits have higher rates of employee departures than do those with these benefits.<br \/>\n(D) At least 95% of employees will stay for at least one year at some companies with daycare benefits.<br \/>\n(E) More companies have recently begun offering daycare and flexible schedule benefits to attract potential employees who are also parents.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>D<\/strong>, <strong>D<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/gmatclub-test-question-m03-q32-car-dealership-76787.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-employee-satisfaction-68735.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) A car dealership sold two cars: the first car at a 10% profit and the second car at a 10% loss, which gave them an overall profit margin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,721,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-problem-solving-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8905,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}