Equations, Inequalities, & VIC's GMAT Preparation Guide, 4th Edition (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)

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How do you find f(x)=f(1/x)?

Are the product of 3 consecutive integers divisible by 2? how about 3,4, and 8?

What is the units digit of 3^107?

If you have any doubts on how to answers these types of questions, and most people do, you need this book.

The explanations on how to best solve problems are very good. Yet the book suffers from what appears to be two different authors writing the explanations and the problems. The same type of problems are not always provided the same type of solutions.

This book is a vast improvement over the previous edition. The GMAT has changed over the years and the previous version did not address all the changes. This book rectifies that. You can be assured many of the concepts outlined in this book will be tested in the real thing.

Although the GMAT quant section only tests high school level math, do not confuse it with the SAT. It is way tougher and far more abstract. Furthermore, your...Read more

I self studied and scored a 770 on the GMAT. Here are my thoughts on the Manhattan GMAT Equations, Inequalities, and VICs GMAT guide:

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The third book in the Manhattan GMAT quant series features theory and practice on equations (with an emphasis on the quadratic equation, the one most commonly tested on the GMAT), functions, inequalities and problems based around variables (the so-called VICs). As is the case with the entire series, the book does an in depth coverage of the theoretical aspects of the topics and also provides a decent amount of practice.

The structure of this guide is similar to that of other MGMAT guides: a more basic to intermediate part (in this case, with 85 practice items) and an advanced section for those who want to take it a step further (where you'll also find 57 questions). The only issue with the questions supplied by MGMAT is that most of them are not exactly in the style of the GMAT, meaning that most...Read more

The content itself is excellent. It walked through each subject, and then provided around 15 exercises for each section, along with guides matching questions from the official guides to the topics being discussed. I found this quite helpful when looking for common, addressable errors in my performance.

My complaint is about the formatting. The superscript font used for exponents is quite large, and only slightly raised from the baseline, so I made a few mistakes at first, thinking something had been multiplied by a number, when it had been raised to a power. There was also some confusion resulting from the equals sign, which often prints out almost like a minus sign, but with a very faint second minus sign underneath it. One item that wasn't confusing, but was annoying, was the fact that questions sometimes run across pages; i would've preferred if they'd marked up the content so that questions always displayed on the page as a unit.

One nice bonus is that...Read more