Welcome back to our series on number properties. Now that you know about prime factors, it’s time to learn a special property about the prime...
Prime Factors of Perfect Squares
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Prime Factorization: The Building Blocks of Integers
One of the most fundamental and widely applicable skills for GMAT quant is the ability to break down integers to their prime factors. Integers...
Exponents on The GMAT/EA: Everything You Need To Know
Understanding Exponents A key piece of algebraic notation on GMAT and Executive Assessment (EA) quant problems is the exponent. Exponents...
Large Exponents and The Units Digit
Welcome to the final article in our series on exponents. Some GMAT and Executive Assessment (EA) quant problems feature impossibly large...
Exponents: Power of k Problems
Welcome to the penultimate article in our series on exponents on the GMAT/Executive Assessment (EA). Today we explore a problem category in...
Zeros and Nonzeros
Welcome back to our series on exponents. Last time we used powers of 10 to express “almost integer” numbers. Today we will use powers of 10 to...
“Almost an Integer” Problems
Unless you do math as a career or a hobby, you probably prefer integers to non-integers. Whole numbers are easier for us to conceptualize. But...
Powers of 10 and Scientific Notation
Many GMAT and Executive Assessment (EA) exponents problems involve the use of 10 as a base. Since all the math we do is in a base 10 system,...
Exponent Properties in Data Sufficiency
Exponents have properties that make them ideal pieces for data sufficiency problems on the GMAT and Executive Assessment (EA) quant sections....