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Author Archive - JeffGRE Question of the Day (May 5th)Verbal The understanding that human mental bandwidth is a finite and scarce resource could fundamentally change the way we think about poverty. Poverty imposes such a(n) (i)_____ cognitive load on the poor, a mental (ii)_____ akin to losing 13 IQ points, that they have little bandwidth... GRE Question of the Day (May 4th)Math For all real numbers, let \({a^* = 1 - a}\) Quantity A Quantity B \({((-1)^*)^*}\) \({2^*}\) 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. Correct Answer - C - (click and drag your... GRE Question of the Day (May 1st)Math Which of the following can be inferred from the information given in the chart? I. More than 80 percent of the men in Congress are members of the House of Representatives.II The percent of members who are categorized as farmers or ranchers is greater for the... GRE Question of the Day (April 29th)Math The remainder when the positive integer m is divided by n is r. What is the remainder when 2m is divided by 2n ? (A) r(B) 2r(C) 2n(D) m – nr(E) 2(m – nr) Correct Answer - B - (click and drag your mouse to see the... GRE Question of the Day (April 28th)Verbal The tokens given by the aristocrat, while (i) _________, still served as a reminder that the power of the Crown continued to be held in some esteem even in such (ii)_________ political times. Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) sardonic (D) mercurial (B) nugatory (E) jocund (C) sumptuous (F) magisterial Correct Answer - B and... GRE Question of the Day (April 27th)Math If a bag contains 18 yellow tiles and 22 black tiles, what is the probability that a tile selected at random from the bag will be yellow? A. \({\frac{{1}}{{10}}}\) B. \({\frac{{9}}{{20}}}\) C. \({\frac{{11}}{{20}}}\) D. \({\frac{{9}}{{11}}}\) E. \({\frac{{11}}{{9}}}\) Correct Answer - B - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question... GRE Question of the Day (April 24th)Math If \({\frac{{b}}{{a+b}}}\) =\({\frac{{7}}{{12}}}\), then what does \({\frac{{a}}{{b}}}\) equal? A. \({\frac{{5}}{{12}}}\) B. \({\frac{{5}}{{7}}}\) C. \({\frac{{7}}{{5}}}\) D. \({\frac{{7}}{{19}}}\) E. \({\frac{{19}}{{12}}}\) Correct Answer - B - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation GRE Question of the Day (April 23rd)Verbal As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what eventually became (i) ________ was that the company had been concocting “value” out of thin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted as visionary but to financial (ii) ________ that turned a once-solid... GRE Question of the Day (April 22nd)Math Which of the following expresses the area of a circle in terms of C its circumference? A) \({\frac{{C^2}}{{4\pi}}}\) B) \({\frac{{C^2}}{{2\pi}}}\) C) \({\frac{{C}}{{2\pi}}}\) D) \({\frac{{C\pi}}{{4}}}\) E) \({\frac{{C}}{{4\pi}}}\) Correct Answer - A - (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation GRE Question of the Day (April 21st)Verbal The leaders of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” were a study in contrasts. At the center of the political storm stood Viktor Yushchenko, his once (i)____________ face transformed into a monstrous mask by dioxin poisoning; but, at his side, no one could miss the (ii)____________Yulia Tymoshenko, soon... |