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Forget it. I got it.. Took me a minute. Had to write it down. Thanks.

You are right, I wrote it wrong. Thanks for the reply. Can you elaborate a little further on what the equation is actually saying. Thanks.

When a certain tree was first planted, it was 4 feet tall, and the height of the tree increased by a constant amount each year for the next 6 years. At the end of the 6th year, the tree was 1/5 taller than it was at the end of the 6th year. By how many feet did the height of the tree increase each year? a)3/10 b)2/5 c)1/2 d)2/3 e)6/5 OA: Trying to review all of my incorrect answers from my GPREP test, so sorry for all the requests. Thanks for all of your help:

Thanks for the answer, and the formula.

Thanks so much for the reponses.

The value of 10^8 - 10^2/10^7-10^3 is closest to which of the following? a)1 b)10 c)10^2 d)10^3 e)10^4 OA I can get the answer to this problem basically by factoring out 10^2 from the top and bottom, and then using basically brute force and just creating a fraction with the results on the top and bottom and dividing. It is not exact, but it does give me a number close to the correct answer, and the question asks for the closest. I was wondering if maybe there is a better way to do this problem.

I would think this would be an easy problem, but I am having a bit of trouble with it: If the speed of x meters per second is equivalent to the speed of y kilometers per hour, what is y in terms of x? (1 kilometer = 1000 meters) a) 5x/18 b)6x/5 c)18x/5 d)60x e)3,600,000x OA: I was assuming I would be multiplying by 60 and then 60 again. I tried plugging in numbers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys.

I was hoping some of you guys (gals) could explain how to get this answer: If the chance of pulling two cards from a stack of uniquely numbered cards (without replacement) and getting the five and six is 0.10, then how many cards are in the stack? (A) 2 (B) 4 © 5 (D) 11 (E) 12

Thank you so much (all of you) for your help with this. I understand it completely now. It was actually much simpler than I thought it was. Also, DWarrior, thanks for the link. I went over the document and it was really good, and helped me understand combinations and permutations much better. I think the hardest part is just knowing when to use or the other, and also knowing when you have to use both.

I get what you are saying. But, I am a little confused the notation "c", when you say 3C1.

I was wondering if someone can explain to me how to the following problem. I have read an explanation for it, but i am still a little lost: How many different arrangements of letters are possible if three letters are chosen from the letters A through E and the letters E and A must be among the letters selected? (A) 72 (B) 64 © 36 (D) 18 (E) 6 OA:

Velman, I guess you decided to sign up for BellCurves. I actually signed on here just to post this question, and saw that you had posted it. What do you think of it so far.

I use Bellcurves. It was recommended to me by one the posters who scored a 720 on the GMAT. I can only comment on the quant since I do not really use it for verbal. The quant questions are really good, and they seem similar to stuff that I saw on the real GMAT. Well, let me qualify that statement a little. Some of the questions on the Bellcurves site were similiar in style to questions I saw on the real GMAT. No exact duplicates or anything like that. The material on there did not teach me much as far as content, so you need to know the basics. I did learn some good tricks and new ways to look at problems. I also think you are given a good amount of feedback from the drills and homeworks. I will post again in a few weeks after I take the test to let you know how well the results were for me.

I have been curious about something for a while, and it has been very hard to find the answer to this question online. Pretty much everyone you speak to about B school admissions will tell you that underepresented US minorites have an advantage in the admissions process, but no one really ever explains in what way. How does a school evaluate a minority candidate in comparison to non-minority candidates? Do they discount the GMAT score, or GPA? Do they assume that minority candidates will have a lower gmat score based on some national score distribution based on demographics? It seems like no school is really straightforward on this, and I can figure out why. I am just curious if anyone here has any realy insight into this. Thanks.

I kind of just went in and did not really give any thought to the AWA. I just looked it as something I needed to do before I got to the real test. I am a decent writer so I did not think it would be too hard for me. All I did was write an intro paragraph, discuss some ideas in about two to three paragraphs, and then write a conclusion. To be honest, the topics are rather generic since they can not expect you to know too much about certain subjects, so I do not think they are too concerened with content. I pretty much wrote junk, I just structured it well. I did look over some documents I found on the web the day of the test that go over a template approach to writing the essays. It is pretty much just standard essay writing stuff.