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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:02 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Fuck this example math problem.
For any integer k > 1, the term “length of an integer” refers to the number of positive prime factors, not necessarily distinct, whose product is equal to k. For example, if k = 24, the length of k is equal to 4, since 24 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3. If x and y are positive integers such that x > 1, y > 1, and x + 3y < 1000, what is the maximum possible sum of the length of x and the length of y? |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:07 PM Author: irate locus you're too dumb to solve a simple math problem, therefore the GMAT is bullshit?
polisci shitheads are hilarious |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:08 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface lol solve this simple problem bro without google (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849177) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:08 PM Author: free-loading university pozpig i think the answer should be 8. x=99, y=300
prime factors of 99: 11, 3, 3 prime factors of 300: 3, 5, 2, 2, 5 |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:10 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface sorry bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849198) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:16 PM Author: irradiated selfie i think it's 16.
since the prime numbers do not have to be distinct, we can say that x=2^9, which is 512. so that's a length of 9. y can then be 2^7, which is 128 since x+3y will still be less than 1000. so 9+7=16. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:20 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface this.
Congrats if you didnt google. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:20 PM Author: irradiated selfie nope. didn't google. i took it last year, so it's still fresh on my mind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849266) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:22 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Fuck my ass brother. Seriously. Can you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849268) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:23 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface I know all the math, but stuff like "oh you max the digits I need the highest value for x that is divisible by 2 and then take the remaining highest y that is divisible by 2 and then see how those prime factors add up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849271) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:25 PM Author: irradiated selfie yeah, the key to gmat quant is knowing how to simplify the problem right after reading it. given that you only have an average of 2 minutes per problem, that's the key factor. the actual math, as you very well know, is pretty simple. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849279) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:31 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Ya man. I just had a question about 2 cars types and 4 colors and each car had to be in a different color. I completely missed that fact there are only 8 options. That would have made it so much easier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849314) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:24 PM Author: Elite amethyst national Without a calculator how the hell does one get 2^9? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849273) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:27 PM Author: Aqua Queen Of The Night bro... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849293) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:27 PM Author: irradiated selfie it helps to memorize these for the gmat. i memorized every exponent of 2 up to the 10th power and every perfect square up to 20. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849296) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:27 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface keep dividing by 2 brother. thats how I do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849297) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:47 PM Author: laughsome slate deer antler You definitely want to memorize powers of 2 up to 2^10=1024. I would memorize all squares up to ~25 also, eg. 17^2=289
Actually squares up to 20 is prob good enough |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:48 PM Author: ocher startled library newt i use game systems - the X in 2^X is one number ahead of the generation of video game consoles (SNES is 2^5, but is part of the 4th generation)
2-bit 4-bit (pong / magnavox odyssey -- 2^2) 8-bit (Ataria 2600 / Intellivision -- 2^3) 16-bit (NES / Sega Master System -- 2^4) 32-bit (SNES / Genesis -- 2^5) 64-bit (N64 / Playstation -- 2^6) 128-bit (GameCube / Xbox / PS2 / Dreamcast-- 2^7) 256-bit (Xbox360 / PS3 / Wii -- 2^8)
and from here it's easy to double 256 and get 512 -- 2^9 |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:55 PM Author: house-broken boyish point stopped playing at 64, ps1 :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849518) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:01 PM Author: ocher startled library newt damn dude, why?? you've missed so much and great things are yet to come (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849599) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:06 PM Author: house-broken boyish point ikr brother. i guess i just started occupying free time with reading, watching films, doing outdoorsy alpha shit, drinking w/ bros, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849657) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:53 PM Author: crimson dead gay wizard jesus christ STUPID
2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048
no calculator necessary for non-dumbs |
Date: August 27th, 2011 7:08 PM Author: Elite amethyst national How long have you been studying for the GMAT brother? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849176) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:08 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface 2-3 weeks? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849182) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:10 PM Author: Elite amethyst national What material have you reviewed? When do you plan to take the test? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849197) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:11 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Manhattan.
2 weeks. FML. 680 yesterday. Getting so much simple shit still wrong and my time on math is horrible. I get to problem #25 when I'm out of time. On verbal I finish with 20min left. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:16 PM Author: Elite amethyst national Have you completed the books? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849236) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:16 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Ya bro. Twice. 700+ SAT math. FML (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849239) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:24 PM Author: irradiated selfie manhattan gmat books for verbal, especially for sentence correction, are very good. but i do NOT recommend it at all for math because the questions are different from the actual gmat. hard to explain, but my math score on manhattan practice exams were very different from actual scores.
buy the official gmat guide books, and also do some practice tests on the gmat club forum. and of course, make sure you do the 2 practice CAT exams available on the mba.com website. those scores are extremely accurate indicators of your actual score on test day.
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:27 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface The manhattan practice tests online cuz old GMAT questions, though their books use fake GMAT questions. I also practice with the GMAT QUANT official problem book and the GMAT official guide book. I "get" all the concepts but miss things on questions on how to apply them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849290) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:28 PM Author: irradiated selfie definitely tough part about the test. i don't think the gmat is as easy as xo posters make it out to be. you just gotta practice until your face explodes; that's what i did, and i'm naturally not a great test taker but did great on the gmat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849303) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:30 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface I need 720+ brother. I' upper 600s with a TON of mistakes and not even doing a third of the math. BUT I also haven't improved in the past week. Fuck my math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849310) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:32 PM Author: irradiated selfie you're on a good track if you're getting high 600's despite not even doing a third of the math. you're probably spending too much time on the easier questions and then getting bogged down on the tough ones. in my case, i made sure i got the first 5 problems right, and then allotted a MAX of 3 minutes on any math question. if i still couldn't get it after that time, i made an educated guess and moved on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849319) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:34 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Brother. I've done 3 exams. On my last 2, I have gotten the first math question wrong both times. You the first one is simple.
Ya. There were 9 questions I spent more than 3minutes on during my last test. I got 5 of those 9 right. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:37 PM Author: irradiated selfie ok; that's obviously a HUGE problem. gotta get the first 4 to 5 questions right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849340) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:38 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Brother. I could have sworn to you yesterday that 2/25 was not between 5% and 10%.
PS. What are you doing now? |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:39 PM Author: irradiated selfie about to start business school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849358) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:33 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface I can get around a 44 verbal and 44 math score. That should place me at 710 GMAT which is also ok I guess. But 44 in each is so far my best in each section. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849324) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:36 PM Author: irradiated selfie what schools are you gunning for? your verbal is fine (probably around 96-97%), but a 44 math score is in the low 70's percentile. the top schools want above 80% on both sections. if you can't crack 80% on math, make up for it by taking math classes at a local college and getting A's in them or demonstrating your quant skills in some other way (either through work, passing CFA exam, etc.). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849337) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:39 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849354) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:40 PM Author: irradiated selfie good luck. i applied to 4 of those schools and will be starting at one of them shortly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849363) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:43 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface 80 percentile math is 48. Shit man. If I could get there I'd be around 750. I hope brother.
What field were u in? banking? consulting? other finance? What u gunning for?
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:45 PM Author: irradiated selfie 2 years banking, 3 years at a long/short equity hedge fund. i'm gunning for top hedge funds, especially event-driven, special situations, and macro. i actually don't really need an MBA, but i think the education, network, and opportunities will be worthwhile. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849404) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:50 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849439) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:53 PM Author: irradiated selfie to be honest, bro, it will be very tough to get into a M7 business school with that background (assuming you're a white or asian male) unless you've done something exceptional outside of work. if you can get 730+ on your GMAT i highly recommend applying early decision to columbia. try to visit the school and express strong interest in them. columbia is obsessed with yield, and the selectivity is lowered for early applicants.
if you want front-office banking, stern is a fine choice as well. tuck is ok for banking, but its strength lies in consulting. their class is too small for my taste, but their alumni network is very loyal and strong.
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:59 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849559) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:03 PM Author: irradiated selfie a place like accenture is fine, but the work needs to be somewhat front-office type roles where you're doing actual consulting, working with clients, etc.
it's gotten very tough for bros in finance/consulting. the elite b-schools are trying to diversify their class. i would have gotten into HBS and Stanford 2 or 3 years ago with my credentials but got waitlist pwnd this year. the deans of admissions at both schools told me i was a very strong candidate who would've gotten in during previous years but their schools are moving in a different direction. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:07 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849664) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:16 PM Author: vengeful corner striped hyena wow, fuck that shit. i got an 800M back in the day and i'm not even sure how to approach that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849238) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:26 PM Author: vigorous salmon base laser beams Lol@ the tards t hat post here
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:32 PM Author: Supple crystalline space halford This isn't a math forum you ching chang chong, ching chong ching faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849315) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:46 PM Author: house-broken boyish point ching chong ding dong fuck you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849412) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:28 PM Author: Galvanic Party Of The First Part just take the GRE bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849301) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:42 PM Author: outnumbered dysfunction theatre Man, problems like the one above is a daily reminder of how medium my intelligence is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849379) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:44 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface TBF, that is a hard problem designed to separate HBS from Stern. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849390) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 7:56 PM Author: arousing hunting ground really tough guy I would definitely not have correctly answered that problem, and still scored 740 on 2-3 days of study. What makes the GMAT so simple is that the verbal is a complete joke unless you're a fob indian/chinaman, so all you have to do is score around the 75th percentile or better on the quant and you should still break 700 without much trouble. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849523) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:00 PM Author: hyperactive useless national security agency ratface Quant is so unforgiving though. http://www.mba.com/the-gmat/gmat-scores-and-score-reports/what-your-percentile-ranking-means.aspx
47 math score is 76 percentile but a 47 verbal is several points above 99 percentile. Too many asians taking the GMAT. |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:04 PM Author: irradiated selfie yup. it's the chinese and indians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849626) |
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Date: August 27th, 2011 8:04 PM Author: arousing hunting ground really tough guy Somewhat true. I'll probably put a few weeks of prep in and retake if I decide to go the MBA route in a year or two. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1743850&forum_id=2#18849635) |