Simplifying Algebraic Expressions - GMAT Quantitative

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A number is divided by 4; its decimal point is then moved to the right 3 places. This is the same as doing what to the number?

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Answer

The best way to illustrate the answer to this question is to do these operations to the number 1.

First, divide by 4:

$1 \div 4 = 0.250$

Now move the decimal point right three spaces:

$0.250\Rightarrow 250.$

This has the effect of multiplying the number by 250.

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Simplify

$\frac{x^{2}-5x+6}{x^{2}+6x-16}$ .

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In order to simplify $\frac{x^{2}-5x+6}{x^{2}+6x-16}$ , we need to factor the numerator and denominator and then cancel out factors as needed:

$\frac{x^{2}-5x+6}{x^{2}+6x-16}$

Factoring the numerator and the denominator we are left with two binomials on both the top and the bottom.

$=\frac{(x-2)(x-3)}{(x-2)(x+8)}$

Since (x-2) appears in both the numerator and denominator they cancel eachother out.

This results in the final solution:

$=\frac{x-3}{x+8}$

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Which of these expressions is equal to $\log_{7} x^{4}$ ?

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$\log_{7} x^{4} = 4 \log_{7} x = 4 \cdot\frac{ \ln x }{\ln 7} =\frac{ 4\ln x }{\ln 7}$

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Factor $\frac{x^{2}+6x+5}{x^{2}+10x+25}.$

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Let's first look at the numerator and denominator separately.

$x^{2}+6x+5$ : We need two numbers that multiply to 5 and add to 6. The numbers 1 and 5 work. So, $x^{2}+6x+5 = (x+5)(x+1)$

$x^{2}+10x + 25$ : We need two numbers that multiply to 25 and add to 10. The numbers 5 and 5 work. So, $x^{2}+10x + 25 = (x+5)(x+5)$

Putting this together, $\frac{x^{2}+6x+5}{x^{2}+10x+25} = \frac{(x+5)(x+1)}{(x+5)(x+5)} = \frac{x+1}{x+5}$

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Find the solutions to the equation .

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Let's combine like terms.

, so the equation has no solution.

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What is the simplified result of following the steps?

(1) Add to .

(2) Multiply the result by .

(3) Subtract $\left ( 2x+y \right )$ from the result.

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From (1), we can easily get the result .

Then from (2), we need to multiply by . This gives us .

The last step is to subtract $\left ( 2x+y \right )$ from :

$\left ( 16x+8y \right )-\left ( 2x+y \right )=16x+8y-2x-y=14x+7y$

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$P = \frac{27D}{2d - D}$

Solve for .

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You have to isolate by moving around the separate components in the problem. The steps should go as follows:

$P = \frac{27D}{2d - D}$

$\frac{2dP}{27 + P} = D$

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Let and be unknown variables. Simplify the following expression:

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To simplify algebraically, we combine like terms. First, we should get the expression in one long string, by removing the parentheses. So remembering the communitive property, the first group in parentheses will have no changes when we remove the parentheses. So simplifies to

However, note the second group in parentheses is being subtracted. So we must invert all the signs in the group to simplify properly. So the previous expression simplifies to

Finally we reorder and combine like terms to get

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If you were to write $(x-3)^{10}$ in expanded form in descending order of degree, what would the third term be?

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By the Binomial Theorem, if you expand $(A+B)^{n}$ , writing the result in standard form, the $r \mathrm{th}$ term (with the terms being numbered from 0 to ) is

$C(n,r)A^{n-r}B^{r}$

Set , , , and (again, the terms are numbered 0 through , so the third term is numbered 2) to get

$C(10,2)\cdot x^{10-2}\cdot (-3)^{2}$

$=\frac{10!}{8! 2!}\cdot x^{8}\cdot 9$

$=45\cdot x^{8}\cdot 9$

$=405x^{8}$

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If $x=\sqrt{\frac{25}{100}}$ ,

what is the value of

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Simplify.

$x=\sqrt{\frac{25}{100}}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}}=\frac{1}{2}$

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Simplify

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Foil

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Which answer is equivalent to $x^{40}$ ?

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$(x^a)^b=x^{ab}$

Therefore:

$(x^4)^{10}=x^{40}$

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The sum of three consecutive integers is 12. What is the value of the middle integer?

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Let the value of the first integer be . This means that the consecutive integers will be , , and . The sum must be 12 which means that

$N+(N+1)+(N+2)=12\Rightarrow 3N+3=12\Rightarrow N=3$

Since the consecutive integers are 3, 4, and 5. The middle integer is 4.

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Solve for .

$y=\frac{3x}{2+x}$

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$y=\frac{3x}{2+x}\Rightarrow y(2+x)=3x$

$2y+xy=3x\Rightarrow xy-3x=-2y$

$x(y-3)=-2y\Rightarrow x=\frac{-2y}{y-3}$

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Assume that $x,y \neq 0$ .

Which of the following expressions is equal to the following expression?

$\frac{(x+y)^{2} +(x - y)^{2}}{x^{2}y^{2}}$

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$\frac{(x+y)^{2} +(x - y)^{2}}{x^{2}y^{2}}$

$=\frac{(x^{2}+2xy+y^{2}) + (x^{2}-2xy+y^{2}) }{x^{2}y^{2}}$

$=\frac{x^{2}+x^{2}+2xy-2xy+y^{2}+y^{2} }{x^{2}y^{2}}$

$=\frac{2x^{2}+2y^{2} }{x^{2}y^{2}}$

$=\frac{2x^{2} }{x^{2}y^{2}} + \frac{2y^{2} }{x^{2}y^{2}}$

$=\frac{2 }{y^{2}} + \frac{2 }{x^{2}} = \frac{2 }{x^{2}} + \frac{2 }{y^{2}}$

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What is the coefficient of $x ^{5}$ in the expansion of $\left (x + 3 \right )^{8}$ ?

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By the Binomial Theorem, the $x^{5}$ term of $\left ( x+3\right ) ^{8}$ is:

$C(8,5) \cdot x^{5} \cdot 3 ^{8-5}$

The coefficient of $x ^{5}$ is therefore:

$C(8,5) \cdot 3 ^{8-5} = \frac{8!}{(8-5)!; 5!}\cdot 3 ^{3}= \frac{8!}{3!; 5!}\cdot 27= \frac{40,320}{6\cdot 120}\cdot 27 = 1,512$

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Simplify the expression:

$(0.6x + 0.7) ^{3}$

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You can use the pattern for cubing a binomial sum, setting :

$\left (A + B \right )^{3} = A^{3} + 3A ^{2}B + 3AB^{2} + B ^{3}$

$(0.6x + 0.7) ^{3} =\left ( 0.6x \right )^{3} + 3 \cdot \left ( 0.6x \right ) ^{2} \cdot 0.7 + 3\cdot 0.6x \cdot 0.7 ^{2} + 0.7 ^{3}$

$=0.216x^{3} + 0.756x ^{2} + 0.882x + 0.343$

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Simplify:

$\left ( 24x ^{3}-3x^{2}+ 12x - 18\right ) \div 6x$

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Rewrite, distribute, and simplify where possible:

$\left ( 24x ^{3}-3x^{2}+ 12x - 18\right ) \div 6x$

$=\frac{ 24x ^{3}-3x^{2}+ 12x - 18 }{6x}$

$=\frac{ 24x ^{3}}{6x} - \frac{ 3x^{2} }{6x} + \frac{ 12x }{6x} - \frac{ 18 }{6x}$

$=\frac{ 24}{6} \cdot x ^{3-1} - \frac{ 3 }{6}\cdot x^{2-1} + \frac{ 12 }{6 } - \frac{ 18 }{6 } \cdot \frac{1}{x}$

$=4 x ^{2} - \frac{ 1 }{2}x+ 2- 3 \cdot \frac{1}{x}$

$=4 x ^{2} - \frac{ 1 }{2}x+ 2- \frac{3}{x}$

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If positive integer N is divided by 24, the remainder is 6. What is the remainder when N is divided by 10?

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The simplest way to solve this problem is to start by picking the smallest positive integer that can be divided by 24. That would be 24, since $24\ast1=24$ . Then, since we need a number that when divided by 24, leaves a remainder of 6, simply add 6 to 24. That gives us 30.

30 is the smallest positive integer that leaves a remainder of 6 when divided by 24.

Finally, divide 30 by 10.

The remainder is 0.

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X and Y are positive integers, such that . Which of following numbers could be the remainder of ?

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Let's set up the problem using algebraic symbols.

,

where Q is the quotient of the answer, and r is the remainder.

$x/y=37.14=37+\frac{14}{100}=37+\frac{7}{50}$ ,

which means that $r/y=\frac{7}{50}$ .

Hence, the remainder MUST be a multiple of 7. The only multiple of 7 in the answer choices is 21, so that is our answer.

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