Blog: Archive for the “Uncategorized” Category

mbaMission writes a monthly feature for our friends at Beat the GMAT. The following piece was penned for BTG by mbaMission Founder, Jeremy Shinewald:   What could be more nerve-wracking than applying to business school without a job? After all, how can you reveal your strong management traits if you are struggling to manage your own career? Well, your internal voice need … Read More  

Each week Manhattan GMAT posts a GMAT question on our blog and follows up with the answer the next day. Are you up for the challenge? If 1/(x – 2) = 1/(x + 2) + 1/(x – 1), which of the following is a possible value of x? (A) –2 (B) –1 (C) 0 (D) … Read More  

Yesterday, Manhattan GMAT posted a GMAT question on our blog. Today, they have followed up with the answer: Let’s call the number of people in the group n, and let’s call each contribution $x. Then we know from the stem that 36 = nx. We are asked for n, which is equivalent to asking for … Read More  

Each week Manhattan GMAT posts a GMAT question on our blog and follows up with the answer the next day. Are you up for the challenge? Several friends in a dinner group decide to contribute equally to the purchase of a $36 gift. How many people are in the group? (1) The number of people … Read More  

Yesterday, Manhattan GMAT posted a GMAT question on our blog. Today, they have followed up with the answer: In order to find all possible factors of , we need to break the expression down into its prime factors. First, though, we should deal with the negative exponent in the denominator. Negative exponents indicate the reciprocal … Read More