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you mean subtract five to get (d) right?


:oops: sorry as i correctly wrote add 5 to get 8825

incorrectly wrote c instead of b - i made that correction.
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Titleist, the official answer is (D)
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Titleist, the official answer is (D)


hmmm...8825 when divided by 18,28, and 35 leaves a remainder of 5

I think i may have to disagree with that "official" answer


is that a Gmat plus question?
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your right, ...I checked on a calculator..... the official answer is incorrect...It happens
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I had three beers tonight :drinking - glad to know my brain cells are still functioning. Struggling but functioning! :out
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The way I solved it was this:
LCM of 18 , 28 and 35 = 1260
The greatest four digit number possible is 9999
Therefore, 9999/1260 leaves a remainder of 1179.
Subtract 5 from 1179 to yield 1174.
9999 - 1174 = 8825
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The way I solved it was this:
LCM of 18 , 28 and 35 = 1260
The greatest four digit number possible is 9999
Therefore, 9999/1260 leaves a remainder of 1179.
Subtract 5 from 1179 to yield 1174.
9999 - 1175 = 8825


And how long did all that long division take you?
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Well - you can do it your way. But it took me less than a minute when breaking it down to prime factors. The calculation alone, the way you did it, would've taken me 2 minutes - and that's without reading and trying to figure the darn question out. I'm just lazy and like to do the least amount of calculations when it comes to these problems.

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