Challenging questions in the Quantitative Section may
test your ability to cut through dense information to get to the heart
of what often turns out to be a relatively simple matter. Why does the
Exam do this? To see whether you have the ability to whittle complex language
down to an easy solution. In these problems, the important thing is to
find the "question behind the question." That is, to find what
the question is really asking. Here’s an example:
At the end of every hour a culture of bacteria becomes some
number of times larger than it was the previous hour. If the
number of bacteria was originally greater than 1 and if the
rate of growth also increases every hour, what was the original
number of bacteria?
1) 
of
the original culture would have resulted in a total of 385
bacteria after 3 hours.
2) The original number of bacteria was less than 4.
This problem is really about
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1) of
the original culture would have resulted in a total of
385 bacteria after 3 hours.?
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Sufficient |
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Insufficient |
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2) The original number of bacteria was
less than 4.
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Sufficient |
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Insufficient |
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1)
of the original culture would have resulted in a total
of 385 bacteria after 3 hours.
2) The original number of bacteria was less than 4.
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