Product Description

The Equations, Inequalities, & VICs Guide covers algebra in all its various forms (and disguises) on the GMAT. Master fundamental techniques and nuanced strategies to help you solve for unknown variables of every type.Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 162 'In-Action' problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).

Special Features:

Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online Equations, Inequalities, & VICs Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in the back of each book).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48117 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780982423813
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
• Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices

From the Publisher
Chapter by Chapter

Part I: General

1. BASIC EQUATIONS
One-Variable Equations, Simultaneous Equations, Mismatch Problems, Combo Manipulations, Absolute Variable Equations

2. EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS
Even Exponents, Common Bases, Common Exponents, Eliminating Roots

3. QUADRATIC EQUATIONS
Factoring, Disguised Quadratics, Foiling, 1-Solution Quadratics, Undefined Denominators, 3 Special Products

4. FORMULAS
Plug-Ins, Strange Symbols, Unspecified Amounts, Sequences, Patterns

5. FUNCTIONS
Numerical Substitution, Variable Substitution, Compound Functions, Unknown Constants, Graphs, Common Function Types

6. INEQUALITIES
Combining Inequalities, Compound Inequalities, Extreme Values, Optimization, Testing Cases, Inequalities and Absolute Value, Square-Rooting

7. VICs
Variables In Answer Choices, Examples, 3 Strategies, Pros and Cons of Different Strategies

Part II: Advanced

Includes separate chapters on Advanced Equations, Inequalities, & VICs topics, as well as additional practice problems.

About the Author
Manhattan GMAT's 8 preparation guides were developed by Manhattan GMAT's talented staff of real teachers, all of whom have scored in the 99th percentile on the official GMAT. As the company focuses solely on the GMAT (no other tests), it continually updates the guides to reflect the GMAT's most current trends.

Customer Reviews

Essential for efficient solutions
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 high school math is probably very rusty by now. If you are unconvinced, please spit out the quadratic formula (which you must have used zillion times in HS) right now. If you can't do it in 5 seconds, then you are rusty.

I am torn whether to give this book a 4 or 5 stars. So I would give it 4.5 stars. It is very worthwhile book and you will not regret the purchase unless you are already a math geek.

Good Book
This is a good book to review concepts on inequalities. If you did not know, you also get the 6 free CAT online tests free with this book.

A must for math virgins wanting to take or retake the gmat
The Manhattan series was the most helpful for me on my GMAT because other GMAT prep books only shows time saving or test taking tips but does not go into details about the various topics which I needed because I don't have a strong quantitative base. In fact, I didn't know even the basic idea of number properties or even odd plus odd is even (must have been asleep in math class) and so these guides were a must for me. Except for the critical reasoning guide, I give them all five stars +++!

Too bad I found these guides too late (just 2 weeks before the exam) and by the time they arrived in the mail, I didn't have time to do any of the practice exercises but I still managed to improve my score from 500 to 640 from just skimming through these guides. 640 may not be a high score, but for someone who didn't know what a cube root is two weeks before the exam, these guides sure did a good job getting me up to speed. In my situation, these guides were heaven sent.

If you're really good with math then they might be too easy and too basic for you. Even then, they would still serve as a nice 'refresher'. They are short and concise and it only took me about an hour or less to skim through each and so they are pricey if you're just using them for a quick review. But if you don't know math like I don't know math, BUY THEM ALL!!! THEY ROCK!