GRE Question of The Day: Comparison

0 < m < n
Column A
n-m
Column B
(n+m)/2
A) if the quantity in column A is greater.
B) if the quantity in column B is greater.
C) if the quantities are equal.
D) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
(Asked by Lakshmy)

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0 < m < n

Column A
n-m

Column B
(n+m)/2

A) if the quantity in column A is greater.
B) if the quantity in column B is greater.
C) if the quantities are equal.
D) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

(Asked by Lakshmy)

GRE Question of the Day by Take GRE Team on July 29th, 2008 with 18 answers.
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18 Answers

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john
#1. July 30th, 2006, at 12:33 AM.

MEHUL
#2. July 30th, 2006, at 12:47 AM.

i agree with john
ans is D

chris
#3. July 30th, 2006, at 9:36 AM.

ans is d coz it ain’t specified whether m,n are integers,rational nos,etc…

neeths
#4. July 30th, 2006, at 2:32 PM.

Abhijit
#5. July 30th, 2006, at 6:53 PM.

sudha
#6. July 31st, 2006, at 7:21 AM.

Take GRE Team
#7. July 31st, 2006, at 8:30 AM.

Dear GRE Takers,
Extremally sorry for typo. We rectified it.

aparna
#8. July 31st, 2006, at 10:17 PM.

veenit
#9. August 6th, 2006, at 4:26 PM.

ITS D

MEHUL
#10. August 14th, 2006, at 11:54 PM.

shan
#11. August 18th, 2006, at 12:20 PM.

yep its D

preeti
#12. October 30th, 2006, at 12:15 PM.

Ailiam Attobra
#13. June 24th, 2007, at 5:17 AM.

Anjan
#14. July 29th, 2008, at 11:56 PM.

satish
#15. July 30th, 2008, at 10:53 AM.

shivali_3
#16. July 30th, 2008, at 12:22 PM.

Oh no I thoughtt it ws a B…neways bt seeing the reason specified here dat nthin abt d nos. ws mentioned here…i recitified my answer.

Ajith
#17. July 31st, 2008, at 6:16 PM.

Just try with numbers …the ans is D

henok
#18. August 17th, 2008, at 12:24 AM.

if we substitute here smaller numbers we may think that B is greater,but if we try to prove it using large numbers we can get that A is greater (0

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