SAT:Punch Of the Week (21-Aug-09)

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SAT:Punch Of the Week (21-Aug-09)

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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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This Week's Punches

Sentence Completion
Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as _ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ___.

A. an invidious . . . malleable
B. a malign . . . philanthropic
C. a ferocious . . . docile
D. an infamous . . . self-serving
E. a dissolute . . . venal

Problem Solving
A swimming pool 100m long and 40m wide is 1m deep at the shallow end and 5m at the deep end. Find the volume (in cubic mts) of water contained in the pool.

A. 15000
B. 12000
C. 14000
D. 11000
E. None of these

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Posted on 26-Aug-09

So,folks here are the correct answers

Sentence Correction
The correct answer is C.

The first adjective will be negative (a malign or a ferocious killer), while the second must go well with friendly and describe a dog. The best choice is docile, because people do not normally describe dogs as philanthropic.

Problem Solving
The correct answer is B.

Area of cross section perpendicular to width = 1/2(100)(1+5) = 300
Volume = area of cross section width = 300×40 = 12,000cubic meters.

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