{"id":8135,"date":"2013-11-18T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:08:58","slug":"gmat-challenge-problem-showdown-november-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/blog\/gmat-challenge-problem-showdown-november-18-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Challenge Problem Showdown November 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"\/images\/challengeproblemRED_scribble.jpg\"\" alt=\"\"challenge problem\"\" width=\"\"506\"\" height=\"\"102\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!<\/p>\n<p>Here is this week&#8217;s problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right triangle\u00c2\u00a0<em>ABO<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is drawn in the\u00c2\u00a0<em>xy<\/em>-plane, with\u00c2\u00a0<em>OB\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>as hypotenuse, where\u00c2\u00a0<em>O<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is at the origin and\u00c2\u00a0<em>B<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0at (15, 0). What is the area of the triangle?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) The\u00c2\u00a0<em>x<\/em>&#8211; and\u00c2\u00a0<em>y<\/em>-coordinates of all three points are non-negative integers.<\/p>\n<p>(2) No two sides of the triangle have the same length.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<form action=\"\"\/\/www.manhattangmat.com\/challenge_take_ans.cfm\"\" method=\"\"post\"\"><label for=\"\"1\"\"><\/label><\/form>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"\"margin: 5px; padding: 0; border: 0;\"\" src=\"\"\/\/s17.postimage.org\/bc3d39x5b\/challengeproblem_RED_scribble_ICON.jpg\"\" alt=\"\"GMAT Challenge Problem\"\" align=\"\"right\"\" \/>To see the answer choices, and to submit your answer, visit our <a href=\"\"\/challenge_thisweek.cfm\"\" target=\"\"_blank\"\">Challenge Problem Showdown<\/a> page on our site.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss this week&#8217;s problem with like-minded GMAT takers on <a href=\"\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Manhattan-GMAT\/39761815456\"\" target=\"\"_blank\"\">our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly winner, drawn from among all the correct submissions, will receive One Year of Access to our <a href=\"\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=61&#038;catid=4\"\" target=\"\"_blank\"\">Challenge Problem Archive<\/a>, AND the <a href=\"\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=336&#038;catid=4\"\" target=\"\"_blank\"\">GMAT Navigator<\/a>, AND Our <a href=\"\"\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=81&#038;catid=4\"\" target=\"\"_blank\"\">Six Computer Adaptive Tests<\/a> ($92 value).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220; We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week&#8217;s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}