{"id":9457,"date":"2011-12-08T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2011-12-08T05:15:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T12:15:20","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-8-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-8-word-problem-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 8): Word Problem and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (PS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. If the same steamer going downstream would cover the distance between the towns in 3 hours, how long would it take a raft moving at the speed of the current to float from town B to town A?<\/p>\n<p>(A) 10 hours<br \/>\n(B) 12 hours<br \/>\n(C) 15 hours<br \/>\n(D) 18 hours<br \/>\n(E) 20 hours<\/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\">Sign up for Kaplan's Business School Blueprint. 5 nights, 5 opportunities to get ahead. <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&offerid=216481.10001092&subid=0&type=4&u1=questionofday\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Learn more!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Meet GMAT Club's newest partner: e-GMAT, verbal for non-natives. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/e-gmat-discount-coupon-code\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Sign up through GC to save!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">FREE B-School Cheat Sheets from Precision Essay for top MBA programs such as Harvard, Standford, and Wharton. <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/static\/forward.php?r=https:\/\/www.precisionessay.com\/resources\/bschool-cheat-sheet\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Learn more!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist: The use of snowmobiles in the vast park north of Milville creates unacceptable levels of air pollution and should be banned.<\/p>\n<p>Milville business spokesperson: Snowmobiling brings many out-of-towners to Milville in winter months, to the great financial benefit of many local residents. So, economics dictate that we put up with the pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist: I disagree: A great many cross-country skiers are now kept from visiting Milville by the noise and pollution that snowmobiles generate.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist responds to the business spokesperson by doing which of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome can derive from only one set of circumstances<br \/>\n(B) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative aspects associated with producing that outcome<br \/>\n(C) Maintaining that the benefit that the spokesperson desires could be achieved in greater degree by a different means<br \/>\n(D) Claiming that the spokesperson is deliberately misrepresenting the environmentalist<br \/>\n(E) Denying that an effect that the spokesperson presents as having benefited a certain group of people actually benefited those people<\/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\/m10-72476.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-tough-one-milville-24740.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 steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. 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