Our Backpacking Trips » gmat http://ourbackpackingtrips.com Where to next? Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Gmat Math Question of the Day http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-math-question-of-the-day/ http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/2008/04/06/gmat-math-question-of-the-day/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:45:19 +0000 mike http://ourbackpackingtrips.com/?p=23 If x + y = 8z, then which of the following represents the average (arithmetic mean) of x,y, and z, in terms of z?

(A) 2z + 1

(B) 3z

(C) 5z

(D) z/3

(E) (3z) / 2

 

Doh!  This seemingly easy question stumped me and took me way more than the alloted 2 minutes to figure out.

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