{"id":9358,"date":"2011-11-23T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2011-11-23T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:29:53","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-nov-23-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-nov-23-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Nov 23): Word Problem and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a company sells <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=S&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='S' title='S' class='latex' \/> tons (1 ton = 1000 kilograms) of product A annually and charges <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=B&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='B' title='B' class='latex' \/> dollars per ton, what is the profit if it costs <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=G&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='G' title='G' class='latex' \/> dollars to manufacture a kilogram of product A and <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=P&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='P' title='P' class='latex' \/> dollars to ship it to the customer?<\/p>\n<p>(A) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=b-1000g%2B1000p&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='b-1000g+1000p' title='b-1000g+1000p' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(B) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=bs-%5Cfrac%7Bg%2Bp%7D%7B1000%7D&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='bs-\\frac{g+p}{1000}' title='bs-\\frac{g+p}{1000}' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(C) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%28b-%28g%2Bp%29%29%2As&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(b-(g+p))*s' title='(b-(g+p))*s' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(D) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cleft%28%5Cfrac%7Bg%7D%7B1000%7D-%28b%2Bp%29%5Cright%29%2As&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\left(\\frac{g}{1000}-(b+p)\\right)*s' title='\\left(\\frac{g}{1000}-(b+p)\\right)*s' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n(E) <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%5Cleft%28%5Cfrac%7Bb%7D%7B1000%7D-%28g%2Bp%29%5Cright%29%2A1000s&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='\\left(\\frac{b}{1000}-(g+p)\\right)*1000s' title='\\left(\\frac{b}{1000}-(g+p)\\right)*1000s' 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\">Black Friday comes early! 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This is partly shown by the fact that in 1985, only 7 percent of women in the workforce were employed in the information services industry, but in 1995, over 16 percent of women in the workforce were employed in the information services industry.<\/p>\n<p>In evaluating the argument above, it would be most useful to compare 1985 and 1995 with regard to which of the following characteristics?<\/p>\n<p>(A) The percentage of women in the workforce who were not employed in the information services industry<br \/>\n(B) The percentage of women who are now retired who have worked in the information services industry<br \/>\n(C) The percentage of women who have been promoted to managerial positions within the information services industry<br \/>\n(D) The percentage of men in the workforce who were employed in the information services industry<br \/>\n(E) The percentage of men who will soon be eligible for employment in the information services industry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-proportion-of-women-69161.html\">OA and Explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>E<\/strong>, <strong>D<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m07-q33-69977.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-proportion-of-women-69161.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 a company sells tons (1 ton = 1000 kilograms) of product A annually and charges dollars per ton, what is the profit if it costs dollars to&#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-9358","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\/9358","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=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9360,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions\/9360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}