This is a little bit of a puzzle and a little bit of quiz. You may solve it if you take plenty of time but the point here is to solve it within 2 mins. So plz do time yourself. Here it goes: Someone asked me, "what are the ages of your 3 daughters?". I replied, well I won't tell you directly but 'd give you clues. Everytime I give you a clue you'd have to tell me if it is sufficient or not. So here goes our conversation. I: The product of the ages of my daughters is 36 S: Well not sufficient. Give me the 2nd clue. I: The sum of their ages is same as the numerical address of my next door neighbour. S goes out checks the address but still could not tell. He asks for the 3rd and final clue I: My eldest daughter is sleeping in the next room. S in no time tells me the ages of my daughters. Question: What are the ages of my daughters. P.S If someone already knows the answer, plz keep it to himself and skip this quiz. Once again it is doable (if such a word exists) in 2 mins. Just think logically. Enjoy, Anirban

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Well I'm no ETS but I would think that an experiment question would have 0 weight attached on it and thus would not affect the difficulty of your next question.

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If that be the case I mean just logically if you can determine that your level of difficulty didn't change or in fact got easier even though you are absolutely positively sure that you did the previous question correctly it means you answered a experimental question.
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I hope I don't have to dust up my Quantum Mechanics books for the GMAT :-D

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No I don't think so either. Though I like the subject.

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