The Equations, Inequalities, & VICs Guide covers algebra in all its various forms (and disguises) on the GMAT. It will help you 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).
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online practice exams and Equations, Inequalities, & VICs question bank.
This book is essentially a programmed review of a college algebra course. The basic structure is a few pages of introduction of the topic followed by a set of approximately 20 problems with detailed solutions in the next section. The material will be understandable for the person that has taken algebra before and in general understood it. The value that the reader acquires from working through the book will be of use independent of the reason for the study. As a point of note, the term VIC refers to “Variable expressions in the answer choices.” These are problems like
“Given the expression x + y = z, solve for x.”
If you need an algebra refresher for any reason, this book will work for you.