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The Quest for 700: Weekly GMAT Challenge

Each week Manhattan GMAT posts a GMAT question on our blog and follows up with the answer the next day. Are you up for the challenge?

The first term in sequence Q equals 1, and for all positive integers n equal to or greater than 2, the nth term in sequence Q equals the absolute value of the difference between the nth smallest positive perfect cube and the (n-1)st smallest positive perfect cube. The sum of the first seven terms in sequence Q is

(A) 91

(B) 127

(C) 216

(D) 343

(E) 784



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