In the figure shown, if the area of the shaded region…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS – Solution: We are given the diagram of a shaded portion of a circular ring. Let’s sketch and label the diagram. As seen below, we …
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The parallelogram shown has four sides of equal length. What is the…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are given a parallelogram of all equal sides, and we must determine the ratio of the length of the shorter diagonal to that …
At a certain fruit stand, the price of each apple is 40 cents and
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We can let the number of apples = x and the number of oranges = y. Using these variables we can create the following …
In a box of 12 pens, a total of 3 are defective. If a customer…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are given that in a box of 12 pens, 3 are defective and thus 9 are not defective. We must determine the probability …
Four extra-large sandwiches of exactly the same size were
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are originally given that 4 sandwiches were ordered and that 3 of those sandwiches were divided by m students. Thus, each student had …
The interior of a rectangular carton is designed by a certain…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are given that the ratio of length: width: height = 3 : 2 : 2 and we are also given that the volume …
Figure X and Y above show how eight identical triangular…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are given that square X and rectangle Y were created with 8 identical triangles. Let’s sketch the figures below. We use the fact …
A three-digit code for certain locks uses the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
May 10, 2016
GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE PS Solution: We are given the following constraints for a 3-digit code: The first number cannot be 0 or 1, the second digit must be 0 …