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SAT:Punch Of the Week (08-June-09)

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What is "Punch Of The Week"?
  • Every week Learnhub's team will post one question each on Verbal Ability and Quantitative Ability of the GMAT Test Preparation

  • Members can post their answers along with explanations for the next one week.

  • After one week, Learnhub's team will post the official answer along with the explanation.Besides answering the previous week's questions, Learnhub's Team will come up with the next set of questions for that week as well.
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Sentence Completion
Puzzled passersby occasionally see the __ message "Nowhere in Particular" on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

A. minatory
B. exclamatory
C. enigmatic
D. surreptitious
E. ameliorative


Problem Solving
A mixture of milk and water measures 60 gallons. It contains 20% water. How many gallons of water should be added to it so that water may be 25%?

A. 10
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 5

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Posted on 15-June-09

So,folks here are the correct answers

Sentence Correction
The correct answer is C. Because the passersby are puzzled, the missing word should have some connection with this adjective. The best choice is enigmatic, a synonym of perplexing.
Problem Solving
The correct answer is B.

Let x gallons be the amount of water to be added. Since, we have added only water, the amount of milk remains same.
Thus, we have
80%(60) = 75%(60 + x)
x = 4

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  1. daagh saidThu, 11 Jun 2009 11:38:47 -0000 ( Link )

    Sentence Completion C Quants B

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  2. prakarsh saidFri, 12 Jun 2009 05:20:45 -0000 ( Link )

    daagh ’s answer is absolutely correct ; i got the same

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  3. sakshi1993 saidSun, 14 Jun 2009 08:30:09 -0000 ( Link )

    I got the same

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  4. Unique Gene saidMon, 15 Jun 2009 04:04:17 -0000 ( Link )

    Even I’ve got the same.

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