Thanks you , But what makes it 650 is it the calculation involved (eating up time ) ,Wording or logical deductions it demands or some upper level concept one must have


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In an actual GMAT questions, calculations involved are minimal. They will never make it a higher level question. The question is a little convoluted with 3 people working at different rates and for different times and all that needs to be handled separately. That makes this question a little harder.[/quote]Thank you


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LEt's make a 3*3 matrix here:

.................................................. A ......... B ........... C........... Total

Public School...........................................................................25

Parochial School......................................................................16

Private Independent School......................2...............................9

Total.........................................18..........17.............................50


Step 2: C has equal number of the 3 school types

.................................................. A ......... B .............. C......................... Total

Public School..............................................................5...........................25

Parochial School.........................................................5...........................16

Private Independent School......................2.................5...........................9

Total.........................................18..........17.......50-18-17=15.................50


Step 3: No of private independent schools in district A

.................................................. A ......... B .............. C......................... Total

Public School..............................................................5...........................25

Parochial School.........................................................5...........................16

Private Independent School.......9-2-5.......2.................5...........................9

Total.........................................18..........17...............15.................50


Answer: A has 2 private independent schools



Alternatively,

All you need to do is focus on what you need. You need to find the number of private schools in A. Total no. of private schools is 9 and in B, you have 2 of them. So there are 7 private schools distributed between A and C. All you need to find is the number of private schools in C to get the number of private schools in A. What is given to you about C? C has an equal number of each of the three kinds of schools. Total number of schools in C = 50 - (18 + 17) = 15. So no. of private schools in C = 15/3 = 5
Therefore, A must have 7 - 5 = 2 private schools.
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HI VeritasKarishma

Is there any non algebraic way of doing the following question?
We could do it by number plugging but I was looking for something logical and fast.
Do let me know!

https://gmatclub.com/forum/bill-and-ted ... s#p2193868

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Nitesh

https://gmatclub.com/forum/if-m-and-n-a ... 01636.html


Hi VeritasKarishma

in this question the final condition becomes:

IS (1/3+n/3) > Rem (1/3+m/3)?

Now the mistake I made on this question is that
I cancelled remainder of 1 on each side.

SO my statement then became:
n/3 > m/3

In this case when analysing option B, I found the option to be NS.

n/3=2
then m/3=
0 yes
1 yes
2 no

Now why can't we cancel the remainders on either side.
Can you tell me why can't I do cancel the remainders on either side.
Any additional theory on this specific concept will really help me.
Looking forward to your analysis.

Regards
nitesh

Dear Karishma ,
Please what does it mean if I can’t solve a question like the below ?
A room contains 160 people,15% of whom a women.A group of people,30% of whom are women leaves the room. Of the people remaining the room,10% are women ,How many people left the room?

Regards,
Staphyk


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Simple solution,Thanks Karishma


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Hi,

I am facing this silly doubt which is bothering me in DS questions.

Is \(\sqrt{n}\) = n
or +n or -n?

To think of it \(\sqrt{81}\) , we can square 9 and -9 to get it.
But after reading many sources and watching youtube videos, they say it can only be positive.

Secondly, if it is only positive then following is contradictory

\(\sqrt{X^2}\) = |X|
Then X can take both positive and negative values, so this is contradictory.


I was solving a question and I struggled with this equation
\(p^2\)= \((q+1)^2\)
What would this give?

Thanks.

Usually, in actual application based GMAT questions, you will not be required to do such calculations. Sometimes, the lower level questions might have a direct calculation such as this one in which approximation would work just fine. It will be a rare question in which you actually need an exact value of this.

To approximate: \(0.17 * \frac{26.4}{1.65} = 1.7 * \frac{2.64}{1.65}\)

Double of 1.65 is a bit more than 3 so 2.64 is about 1.5 times of 1.65.

So we get 1.7 * 1.5

1.7 is a bit less than 2 so our answer will be a bit less than double of 1.5 i.e. a bit less than 3.

If you do the actual calculation you get 2.72 so you are close.

I prefer to stick to smaller numbers rather than make them larger. That is why instead of changing 26.4 to 264, I changed 26.4 to 2.64.

That said, if you do need exact values, remove the decimals to get 17*264/1650.
Looking at even numbers, my first instinct is to divide them by the highest power of 2 i.e. is it divisible by 2 or 4 or 8...
The next obvious common factors are 5/3 then 11 etc...
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Yes, this can be a source of confusion. That is why we have a post on it on our blog here: https://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2016/0 ... oots-gmat/

It discusses the cases you have brought up and the 'why' behind each. Let me know if you still have doubts.
Now that you are familiar with principal square root concept.

\(\sqrt{X^2} = |X|\)

\(\sqrt{X^2}\) is the principal square root of X^2. So whatever you get after finding square root, it will be positive. But what if X is negative? To ensure that you still get a positive value, you take |X|. Let's look at an example.

\(\sqrt{5^2} = \sqrt{25} = |5| = 5\)
This is fine. What we get is a positive number. Since we are talking about principal square root, this is what is expected.

\(\sqrt{(-5)^2} = \sqrt{25}\)
Now what is the answer? It is still 5, right? Still the principal square root. But if I say that \(\sqrt{X^2} = X\), that gives me -5 as answer because X = -5.
But the principal square root cannot be negative.
So I say \(\sqrt{X^2} = |X|\)

\(p^2 = (q+1)^2\)
All you can say in this case is that their absolute values are the same.
|p| = |q + 1|

Why?
Taking square root both sides, you get
\(\sqrt{p^2} = \sqrt{(q+1)^2}\)
\(|p| = |q + 1|\)
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