Age Equations, Wordy Questions and Epic Algebra! GRE and GMAT Quant Advice

Struggling with those 'in three years time, X will be 1/3 of Y questions'? Or how to solve the simultaneous equations that result efficiently? This video is for you!

I will go over a few tips for those wordy algebra questions that appear in the GRE and GMAT and that require you to set up and solve linear equations.

Here is the preview of my algebraic Quant advice:

You don’t have to write everything at once!

Don’t forget to add the time (usually years) to both sides!

‘Would have’, 'has', 'is', 'was', 'will be' all mean =

5 apples less than Banks
means ‘B – 5’ not ‘5 – B’

Giving affects both sides!

Good luck!

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