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An interesting New York Times story pointed out that M.P.G can be misleading statistic.

“The problem, Richard P. Larrick and Jack B. Soll write in Science, is that people perceive that fuel consumption falls in a linear fashion as m.p.g. increases.”

But this is not true as the graph below illustrates.

I thought this statistical trickery would produce a challenging GMAT quantitative question

Lets see how the PrepHub’rs.

Here is the solution to the M.P.G GMAT question