{"id":9672,"date":"2011-12-29T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2011-12-29T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T12:54:20","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-29-coordinate-geometry-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-dec-29-coordinate-geometry-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Dec 29): Coordinate Geometry and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If vertices of a triangle have coordinates <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%28-2%2C+2%29%2C+%283%2C+2%29%2C+%28x%2C+y%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(-2, 2), (3, 2), (x, y)' title='(-2, 2), (3, 2), (x, y)' class='latex' \/> , what is the area of the triangle?<\/p>\n<p>1. <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%7Cy+-+2%7C+%3D+1&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='|y - 2| = 1' title='|y - 2| = 1' class='latex' \/><br \/>\n2. angle at the vertex <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=%28x%2C+y%29&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='(x, y)' title='(x, y)' class='latex' \/> equals 90 degrees<\/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\">Introducing Veritas Prep GMAT on Demand for the iPad! Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/gmat-on-demand-veritas-prep\/id427860224?mt=8\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Veritas Prep GMAT on Demand app<\/u><\/a> from the iTunes App Store.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Enroll in MBA Prep School's 2011\/2012 season pass for only $97. Discount code: GC2011Season. <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaprepschool.com\/pricing\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Sign up now!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 0px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">$695 Full-Set Essay Editing Package (50% savings). Offer ends 12\/29 and space is limited so email mbaadmit@aol.com soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><u>Sign up now!<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of charges have been raised against me, some serious, some trivial. 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Furthermore, as the corporation\u2019s unbroken six-year record of growth will show, my conduct of my official duties as chairman has only helped enhance the success of the corporation, and so benefited every stockholder.<br \/>\nWhich of the following can be properly inferred from the excerpt?<\/p>\n<p>(A) The chairman believes that all those who have demanded his resignation are motivated by desire to control the corporation for their own purposes.<br \/>\n(B) Any misdeeds that the chairman may have committed were motivated by his desire to enhance the success of the corporation.<br \/>\n(C) The chairman is innocent of any criminal offense.<br \/>\n(D) The corporation has expanded steadily over the past six years.<br \/>\n(E) Any legal proceedings against the chairman have resulted in his acquittal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#cecece\">\nAnswers to the questions: <strong>A<\/strong>, <strong>D<\/strong><br \/>\nFor explanations please see these threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m14-76740.html\">math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/a-number-of-charges-have-been-raised-against-me-some-75784.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 (DS) If vertices of a triangle have coordinates , what is the area of the triangle? 1. 2. angle at the vertex equals 90 degrees GMAT Daily Deals Introducing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,721,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-data-sufficiency-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","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=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}