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by ya1ya2
Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:27 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Math
Topic: What is the greatest possible area of a triangular region
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Re: What is the greatest possible area of a triangular region

If you remember the area of a triangle is also given by 1/2 A B sin(AB) in this case A and B are = 1, so that leaves us with maximizing sinAB which is max at 90degrees. Hence we are left with the area of 1/2 [editor: this solution process may be valid, but you should try to come up with a solution t...
by ya1ya2
Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:40 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: A recently published report indicates that the salaries of t
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Re: hmm

can we argue that choice C is very very wordy and akward? i suppose so, although a much more serious issue is the lack of proper, unambiguous subject for 'making' (which seems to refer back to the salaries of the teachers, and not to the teachers themselves as intended). what i find more interestin...
by ya1ya2
Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:15 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: While depressed property values ca
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Re: While depressed property values ca

    So please tell me what is the OA? A?
by ya1ya2
Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:16 pm
 
Forum: Manhattan Prep GMAT Non-CAT Verbal
Topic: Please explain, Experts!
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Please explain, Experts!

The MGMT SC has the following sentences - By 1945, the US had been at war for several years. Here we use past perfect, because we have a time reference - 1945. So no need for the simple past. There are however 2 phases 1. by 1945 - replaces simple past 2. the US had been at war for several years - t...
by ya1ya2
Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:18 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: By pressing a tiny amount of nitrogen between two diamonds
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Re: By pressing a tiny amount of nitrogen between two diamonds

Ron,
Absolutely fantabulistic.. Been searching for an explanation of exactly what is not only...but also.. Found it! I think MGMT SC book should include this piece for sure..
by ya1ya2
Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:35 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Unlike other Mayan cities
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Ron, So what does which in choice D refer to? Can you please expound on the concept, does it refer to just highlands of the foot of the highlands. Much appreciated! Thanks Hi Would like to enquire about a fundamental question, for D: "at the foot of the highlands, which were a source" - fo...
by ya1ya2
Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:46 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: For the first time
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Re: For the first time

Ron, In choices A and B what does which stand for? California? can you please elaborate? Thanks For the first time in the modern era, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California, which amounts to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters onl...