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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? Question: A home decorator will choose from 2 of 8 paintings to and from 3 of 6 sculptures to decorate a certain room in a house.  How many different … Read More  

Yesterday, Manhattan GMAT posted a GMAT question on our blog. Today, they have followed up with the answer: We can attack this problem by doing Direct Algebra. First, carry out the replacement. That is, literally replace every x in the expression with 1 – x, putting parentheses around the 1 – x in order to … 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? x is replaced by 1 – x everywhere in the expression 1/x – 1/(1 – x), with x ? 0 and x ? 1. If the result is then … Read More  

Finding yourself on your target school’s waitlist can be frustrating, but keep two things in mind as you prepare to play the waiting game. First, being waitlisted is actually an endorsement of your candidacy, and second, there is a right way and a wrong way to manage the waitlist process, depending on the school’s policy. … Read More  

Is your GPA lower than your target school’s average? Is your GMAT score uneven? Do you have a gap in your work experience? Most business school candidates have at least one irregularity in their profile and must consider whether to write the optional essay to explain it. And, of course, if you decide you do … Read More