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Author Archive - JeffGRE Question of the Day (November 2)Math If a = b × c2c2 and c decreases by 20% while a remains constant, by what percent does b increase? Round your answer to the nearest 0.1% enter your value as % Question Discussion & Explanation Correct Answer - 56.3 - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) GRE Question of the Day (November 1)Verbal The popular notion that a tree’s age can be determined by counting the number of internal rings in its trunk is generally true. However, to help regulate the internal temperature of the tree, the outermost layers of wood of the Brazilian ash often peel away... GRE Question of the Day (October 31)Math In a sequence a1, a2,…, each term after the first is found by taking the negative of the preceding term, and adding 1. If a1 = 2, what is the sum of the first 99 terms? (A) 49 (B) 50 (C) 51 (D) 99 (E) 101 Question Discussion & Explanation Correct Answer -... GRE Question of the Day (October 30)Verbal Peculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often (i) ______ as the best English language playwright, and often (ii) ______ as a man lacking the education to write those plays. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) crowned (D) demonized (B) stigmatized (E) dismissed (C) castigated (F) deified Correct Answer - A, and E - (click and drag your mouse to... GRE Question of the Day (October 29)Math s2s2 + t2t2 <1−2st<1−2st Quantity A Quantity B 1-s t A) Quantity A is greater. B) Quantity B is greater. C) The two quantities are equal. D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. Question Discussion & Explanation Correct Answer - A - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) GRE Question of the Day (October 26)Math The stiffness of a diving board is proportional to the cube of its thickness and inversely proportional to the cube of its length. If diving board A is twice as long as diving board B and has 8 times the stiffness of diving board B,... GRE Question of the Day (October 25)Verbal While new census data reveals that unemployment numbers are more dire than was previously suspected, it is not clear that the forecast for American entrepreneurship is equally alarming. An article in a major national newspaper suggests that the contraction in hiring at existing companies might... GRE Question of the Day (October 24)Math If r>0r>0, s ≠ 1212 and r=3s+11−2sr=3s+11−2s, then s=s= A) 3r12+6r3r12+6r B) −2r3−2r3 C) r−13+2rr−13+2r D) 23(1−r)23(1−r) E) −1+r3 Question Discussion & Explanation Correct Answer - C - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) GRE Question of the Day (October 23)Verbal The astrophysicist argues that our books and films about interstellar space travel are a form of mass _________, and that only a miracle on a scale heretofore unseen could allow a human being to voyage to even the closest star in another solar system. Blank (i) (A)... GRE Question of the Day (October 22)Math n is an integer, and |2n+7|<=10|2n+7|<=10. Quantity A Quantity B The difference between the greatest and least possible values of n 10 A) Quantity A is greater. B) Quantity B is greater. C) The two quantities are equal. D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. Question Discussion & Explanation Correct Answer - B - (click and drag... |