EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Two positive integers, A and B, each yield the same remainder when divided by 4. Furthermore, A is less than IS. In the table, select values for A and 5that are jointly consistent with the given information. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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A scientist collected eight samples (Samples 1-8) from various surfaces in a laboratory to test for the presence of defferent types of bacteria For each of the samples, the graph shows the relative abundance of each of three types of bacteria (Bacteria X, Y, and Z) detected in the sample, as a percentage of all Bacteria X, Y, and Z detected In the sample.
Select the options from each drop-down menu that create the most accurate statement based on the information provided.

Question3: In only a very few of the cases where plants have been said to be engaged in "chemical warfare," such as In the case of knapweed and certain shrubs In California chaparral country, there Is solid evidence that secreted toxins are the inhibitory growth factor acting against neighboring plants.

Question4: The manager of 6 employees, Employees A-F, will select a committee by choosing exactly 3 of the employees to be on the committee. The manager's supervisor recommended that Employee A not be chosen If either Employee C or Employee F (or both) is chosen.
Select for Number if recommendation not followed the maximum number of selections the manager has available If the recommendation is not followed, and select for Number If recommendation is followed the maximum number of selections the manager has available If the recommendation is followed, so that the selections are jointly consistent with the given information. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question5: The passage most strongly suggests that the author agrees with which of the following?

Question6: Although New York City was planning a huge reception to welcome Amelia Earhart home from her solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1932, she telegraphed Mayor James Walker requesting that they cancel the ceremonies, with the money being spent on the needs of the unemployed.

Question7: The information in the passage most strongly implies that, if an astrophysicist built a device exclusively located on Earth's surface that was able to detect gamma rays from space striking the atmosphere, it would

Question8: What is the value of n ?
(1) Twice n equals n plus 8.
(2) n times n equals 8n.

Question9: A motorist passing through an unfamiliar city needs to fill her car's fuel tank soon, well before she leaves the city, and needs to minimize her expenses. Nearby is the King Petrol station, offering the correct fuel for 2.OX) euros per liter. She has seen about one petrol station every 2 kilometers (km) of driving, on average, though distances vary. Prices at different petrol stations appear to vary randomly by up to 10%: roughly 2 km behind her in her journey she saw the correct fuel for 1.81 euros per liter. The fuel efficiency of her car under the current driving conditions is about 10 liters per 100 km. She could get a small amount of fuel at one station to allow her to drive to another station within the city.
On the basis of the information in the passage, select for Reason to stop the factor that most clearly provides a logical reason for the motorist to stop at the King Petrol station. And select for Reason not to stop the factor that most clearly provides a logical reason for the motorist not to stop at the King Petrol station. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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Question11: I It is said of parasitic forms of life that, although they burden their hosts, they do not kill them, since a parasite cannot survive unless its host does. Mr. Craig's prize-winning lilies, however, were invaded by dodder, a parasitic plant, and every one of the lilies died soon after. Plainly, therefore, a parasite can be deadly.
The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions?

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The artist has correctly determined that to make the largest possible square grid from the available tiles, she must use all of the except for those in the group of X tiles. Moreover, if she uses all of the tiles except for those in the group with X tiles and those in the group with Y tiles, she could make a smaller square grid.
select for X for Y the values that are consistent with the information provided. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question13: For each international call made to Country B last month, a certain telephone company charged a customer
$075 to connect the cal plus a certain per-minute rate applied to each minute or part of a minute of the duration of the call. If the telephone company's total charge for the customer's calls to Country B last month was
$84.00, what was the per-minute rate, in dollars?
(1) The telephone company connected 12 calls for the customer to Country B last month.
(2) If the telephone company had no connection fee last month but had charged a per-minute rate that was 20 percent greater than the rate the customer was actually charged, then the total charge for the customer's calls to Country B last month would have been $90.00.

Question14: The reasoning in the final paragraph most strongly implies that the author makes which of the folowing assumptions?

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Question16: The Hupa's overwhelming interest in wealth and social position allies them with the North Pacific tribes, but the Hupa thought that the distribution or destruction of property during a potlatch, as those tributes did, was a preposterous idea and beyond their comprehension.

Question17: Originally, the bill for Quon's mea! was $11.88, which included an 8% tax on the cost of the meal. Quon presented a discount coupon for 25% off the cost of his meal.
Quon's final bill was the discounted cost of the meal plus the 8% tax on the discounted cost of the meal. How much was Quon's final bill?

Question18: Until the Apollo astronauts brought samples of lunar material to Earth during 1966-72, scientists believed that the Moon's surface was largely undisturbed, given its dry, airless environment. Examination of the samples has shown otherwise. Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the Moon at up to
100,000 kilometers per hour, chipping materials or forming microscopic craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and recondense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into lumps of heterogeneous matter called "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with solar particle streams convert iron into myriads of microscopic iron grains. The regdith-pebbles, sand, and dust-from these erosion processes blankets the Moon. Much of the top layer consists of a complex abrasive dust of microscopic glass shards that can grind machinery and sealing devices and damage human lungs.
The Apollo specimens held by the United States are doled out in ultra-small samples to scientists who demonstrate that nothing else will suffice for high-value experiments. Renewed interest In lunar exploration in the late 1980s meant that materials designed to simulate lunar regolith-simulants-were needed for research to develop schemes for lunar building and procedures for extracting elements such as oxygen found abundantly in regolith. That led to the development of JSC-1 in 1993, made of volcanic cinder cone from a quarry in Arizona in the U.S. The more than 22 metric tons made was in high demand. Efforts are now afoot to manufacture 16 metric tons of JSC-1 A, with 1 ton of fine grains, 14 tons of moderately fine, and 1 ton of coarse.
The reason cited in the passage for developing a few root simulants (see highlighting) is

Question19: A major manufacturer of outdoor clothing spends a significant portion of its overhead costs on transportation in its home markets. Everywhere the cost of fuels, including marine and aviation fuels, has been rising steeply for the last six months. But during this period the profits of the company have tripled.
Which of the following would, if true, most help explain why the phenomenon described above occurred?

Question20: Many companies today are making new product development a central element of their competitive strategy.
Because the potential benefits of successful product innovation are great-prolonged growth, superior financial returns, and strong investor interest-many companies offer employees incentives such as promotions and bonuses for developing new products, incentives not offered for innovations in other areas of the business, firms' priorities can also be shaped by their measurement systems, since these systems can directly measure returns from new products more immediately than they can measure returns from investments in such areas as organizational restructuring or innovations in marketing.
But the organizational culture of such companies can hurt them in the marketplace because a narrow focus on product development can ultimately detract from a firm's performance. For instance, a company's ability to profit from new products can be severely hampered if it has neglected other functions and business processes.
If a company develops a superior new product but is unable to distribute and promote t rapidly, competitors with better distribution systems may copy the product and introduce It into the market before the innovator can profit from its innovation. In contrast, effective distribution, marketing, and accounting systems-that is, strong overall business systems -can act as entry barriers, deterring would-be competitors from entering a particular It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about organizational culture?

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Question22: In her first major cinematic role, a role she was nominated for an Ariel Award for. Salma Hayek played Alma, one of three protagonists in the highly acclaimed Mexican film ElCallejdn de bs Milagros.

Question23: In good times, an auction is the obvious choice for colectors wanting to sell a work of art, but A did just a few short months ago.

Question24: The color red has been shown to induce greater aggression in people than the color blue, Researchers conducted a study to determine whether such colorinduced aggression could influence the amount that consumers were willing to pay for an identical product in online auction and online negotiation scenarios.
The researchers photographed a single item against each of four background colors: blue, gray, white, and red. Using a computer, each participant in the study viewed the item against exactly one of the four background colors. Half of the participants were told the item was up for auction and were asked to submit their highest bid for the item. The other half of the participants were told to negotiate a price with the seller and were asked to offer the highest amount that they would be willing to pay for the item.
The researchers expected that participants who viewed the red background would typically behave more aggressively than those who viewed the blue background. Among the auction group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would submit higher bids as they tried to beat other potential bidders. Among the negotiation group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would make lower offers as they tried to compete against the seller to get the best deal.
For each of the following statements about the researchers' study, select Yes if that statement accurately reflects the information provided. Otherwise, select No.

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Question30: The photographic technique used to detect celestial objects that are fainter than what is visible to the unaided eve, allowing large areas of the sky to be covered bv a single exposure, achieves a high resolution useful in examining structural details, and provides a permanent record.

Question31: According to the passage, which of the following calls Into question the analysis that uses the concept of structural inertia?

Question32: It is known from cave paintings and other evidence that the hunting people occupying the Bax Cave area in Country X tens of thousands of years ago repeatedly set fire to the surrounding area. Archaeologists hypothesize that because the fires caused later plant growth on the land, the hunters set the fires in order to attract herbivorous prey species. Such actions, they claim, are evidence for the mental capacity to delay gratification for weeks, months, or even years.
Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in evaluating the archaeologists' claim?

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Question35: What is the median of the data set consisting of the 5 integers d, A, 3, 5, and 2 ?
(1) The mean of the data set is 4.
(2) d>3

Question36: A certain truck averages 10 miles per gallon when driven in the city and 25 miles per gallon when driven on the highway. According to these rates, which of the following is closest to the number of miles per gallon that the truck averages when it is driven 20 miles in the city and 30 miles on the highway?

Question37: Although many people assume that excessive use of the saltshaker fully accounts for the overly salt-rich diet of the United States, the fact is that about 77 percent of the salt, even with Americans who sprinkle liberally, comes from processed foods such as lunch meats, commercial soups, packaged cakes, and potato chips.

Question38: Suppose that m and n are two positive integers such that m< n, their least common multiple is 294, and their greatest common divisor is 7. In the table, select a value for m and a value for n that are jointly consistent with the given information. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question39: Editorial: For the past two years, our dty has used photo radar to enforce speed limits at several Intersections, automatically photographing cars, measuring their speeds, and mailing tickets to offending drivers. In the second year of the program, the annual number of violations observed by photo radar dropped by 5 percent.
This shows that the program has been effective at reducing speeding on the monitored streets.
The editorial's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?

Question40: The passage suggests that all of the following are true of the cell adhesion molecules mentioned in the highSghted text EXCEPT:

Question41: Wildlife management seeks to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of reproductive adults, particularly adult females, to maintain the population of any particular species at a level sustainable by the environment.
This Involves setting upper limits, by sex and age, on the number of animals that hunters may take during specified periods of the hunting season. To determine these upper Smlts, wildlife managers plan to collect data about the sex and age of animals killed by hunters during each hunting season, by examining random samples of the animals' teeth. They will then use the resulting information to set the upper limits for the following year's hunting season.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the managers' plan, if implemented, will achieve the stated goal of wildlife management?

Question42: The only prime factors of the positive integer n are 2,3, and 5. What te the value of n ?

Question43: Daniel: Historically, railroads substantially altered the course of the United States economy, enabling the country to enjoy unprecedented growth in the nineteenth century.
Robert: It's true that growth required cheap inland transportation, which railroads provided. But with government support similar to the massive land grants that subsidized rapid railroad expansion, canals and roads could have had the same effect.
Which of the following is most likely a point that Robert believes is at issue between Daniel and himself?

Question44: In Moldova in 1979, Russian was claimed as a native language by a large proportion of Jews (66 percent), ethnic Belarusians (62 percent), and bv a significant proportion of ethnic Ukrainians (30 percent).

Question45: For a shipment of n bottles of a certain product, a mail order firm charges a price of $40.00 per bottle, plus a shipping fee of 5 percent of the total price of the n bottles, plus a handling fee of $5.00 per shipment. What is the least value of n for which the total charge per bottle shipped is less than $42.50 ?

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Question48: An orchestra conductor a planning the group's next concert. The orchestra will play a total of 3 pieces, and the conductor requires the total playing time of the 3 pieces to be at least 90 minutes but no more than 120 minutes. The pieces the conductor is considering are listed below with the approximate playing time.
First the orchestra will play one of two preludes:
* Prelude A (10 minutes)
* Prelude 8 (28 minutes)
Next they will play one of two classical piano concertos:
* Concerto A (32 minutes)
* Concerto B (48 minutes)
Finally they will play one of two romantic symphonies:
* Symphony A (35 minutes)
* Symphony B (41 minutes)
Based on these approximate lengths, select for Piece X and for Piece K two different pieces so that Piece X will be played before Piece Y, and if the conductor chooses Piece X, then in of def to comply with the given time constraints, the conductor must also choose Piece Y. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question49: In the standard (x,y) coordinate plane, points (a,b) and (c,d) lie on the graph of y = x2. If ac < 0, what is the y-intercept of the line containing (a,b) and (c,d) ?
(1) d = 9
(2) ac = -3

Question50: Sales promotions can involve selling a product at a relatively low price or selling the product with a free (or seemingly free) unit of the product, as in "buy one, get one free" campaigns. Research shows that immediately following month-long sales promotions, a postpromotion dip may occur, i.e., sales for the following calendar month may be less than sales for the calendar month preceding the sales promotion.
To increase sales, Storex, a department store, held month-long sales campaigns to promote four of its products. A sales promotion was considered successful if unit sales of the product were at least 10% higher in each of the 2 calendar months immediately following the promotion than In the month preceding it.
Experts have offered explanations for postpromotion dip:
* Explanation I: Many consumers stockpile the product at relatively low cost during the sales promotion.
* Explanation II: "Buy one, get one free" promotions cause some consumers to undervalue the product, making them less likely to buy it following the sales promotion.
* Explanation HI: Many consumers who missed a "buy one, get one free" opportunity may, as a result, develop so-called inaction inertia, i.e., become less likely to buy the product at either the regular or even at a discount price than if the sales promotion had not occurred.

For each of the following actions, select Yes if it is mentioned in at least two of the tabs. Otherwise, select No.

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Question52: Between 1948 and 1958, 11 mKon of the 13 midion homes constructed in the United States were built In the suburbs, so that by 1960 there were as many people who lived in the suburbs as laige cities.

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Question54: The belief of physicists Enrico Fermi and Glenn Seaborg, articulated In 1946, that nuclear physics would ultimately prove more useful a tool in medical diagnosis treatment than as a source of energy was not widely shared by their colleagues.

Question55: The Red Balloon Challenge was an experiment aimed at determining how quickly widely disbursed information could be gathered using social media. Competitors tried to locate 10 red weather balloons that had been tethered above random locations around the world in return for a $40,000 prize. The winning team located all of the balloons in just 9 hours, using an incentive-based strategy to encourage information sharing; The first person to send the correct coordinates of a particular balloon to the team received $2,000, but whoever recruited that person received $1,000, and the recruiter's recruiter received S500, and that person's recruiter received $250.
Select for 3 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 3 people for each balloon located, and select for 4 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 4 people for each balloon located.
Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question56: In the High Middle Ages, Latin, though no one's native tongue, was the language of international scholarly communication in Europe. Petrus Alfonsi, a native Hebrew and Arabic speaker. was unquestionably the author of four twelfth-century scientific works. Some scholars also attribute to Aifonsi two later scientific texts, because of their similarity in content and doctrine to the earlier works. However, the Latin in the first four works is impeccable while that in the later texts is not furry competent. Therefore, these two could not have been composed by Alfonsi.
Which of the following, 4 true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

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Question59: West River Glen is deciding which network architecture should replace its old copper telephone lines. The town will replace 300 miles of Outside Plant (OSP) cable that will serve approximately 2,500 homes.
The first option is to install a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) system architecture that uses fiber-optic cable to transmit signals from the source to each home. The advantages of this architecture include greater bandwidth capabilities, less signal loss, and slightly lower new-cable deployment costs than the second option. Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC).
An HFC network integrates fiber-optic cables and devices with coaxial cables.
This will cost the town substantially less money for internal equipment and for customer installations.
However, the coaxial cable does not last as long as fiberoptic cable and will thus need to be replaced more frequently, resulting in higher long-term maintenance expenses.
The town believes that either the FTTH or HFC architectures will be capable of serving the communities' data and television needs for the next 30 years.
For each of the following statements, select Supported'if the statement is supported by the information given.
Otherwise, select Not supported.

Question60: Candidate McFee received 12,000 votes, which was of the total number of votes. If .r additional people had

voted and each had voted for McFee, then McFee would
have received of the total number of votes. What is the value of x?

Question61: The passage suggests most strongly that in the presence of certain economic conditions, gray markets will encourage authorized retailers to

Question62: If 10 circles, all with different radii, are positioned in the same plane, what is the maximum possible number of distinct points where 2 or more of the circles intersect?

Question63: Having emerged as the United States' most popular tourist destination by mid-1997, Las Vegas was expecting to end that year hosting more than 32 million visitors, who were estimated to have spent in excess of $22.5 billion.

Question64: In criticizing the "second approach" to explaining the supposed lack o* rational transformation of the workplace, the author most likely assumes which of the Wowing?

Question65: When the newly elected prime minister gave his first official speech, he took pains not to dwell on what might have been if his party should have attained a clear maim its by on how the coalition government, given sufficient time and appropriate resources, would benefit the country.

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Question67: When fish or mammals ingest the chemical rotenone, enzymes In (he digestive tract metabolize most of it, rendering It harmless, but If enough rotenone enters the bloodstream, It can kill them. Wildlife managers who use rotenone in rivers or lakes to reduce fish populations claim that the practice is harmless to aquatic mammals, but clearly if enough rotenone is used to kill fish, mammals must be at risk too.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

Question68: The passage is primarily concerned with discussing

Question69: The information in the passage most strongly implies which of the following?

Question70: The company's long-term planning statement, particularly the sections condemning temporary price adjustments and new customer-service approaches, were criticized for being insufficiently responsive to the current business climate.

Question71: It can be inferred from the passage that if Cope's hypothesis were correct, which of the following would most likely be true concerning salt-affected areas in Victoria?

Question72: In a study examining the neural pathway linking audtory perception to motor skills, brain scans of study participants who were tone-deaf-those unable to differentiate between or produce sounds of various pitches-revealed many fewer fibers on the arcuate fasciculus, the pathway connecting the frontal and temporal lobes, than there were In a control group of non-tone-deaf people. In 90 percent of the tone-deaf participants, researchers could not detect the superior branch of the arcuate fasciculus. The researchers concluded that they had found the anatomical cause of tone deafness.
Which of the following would, if true, indicate a major flaw in the researchers' reasoning?

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Question74: Welleby's Plan
The water In the underground water table beneath the town of Welleby is moderately saline-
20,000millkjrarns of salt per liter of water (mg/L), or roughly half as saline as ocean water. To lower the level of the water table and thus prevent agricultural land from being inundated with salt water, the town plans to pump water from the table at a rate of 450kiloliters per day (kL/day) into a large shallow pond, allowing much of the water to evaporate. The town plans to divert 10percent of the water pumped from the water table to supplement Us supply of drinking water, which Is currently piped In from great distances. Due to the water's supply, the town intends to construct a desalination plant to treat the diverted water for use as drinking water.
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Comparison
Welleby is deciding among the following three desalination methods.
Reverse Osmosis (RO): Water Is pushed through a membrane, leaving salts behind. RO systems can handle a large range of water flow rates and use relatively little energy. However, RO membranes are expensive and must be replaced every 2 to 5 years. There is also a possibility that bacteria can grow on the membrane.
Introducing tastes and odors Into the desalinated water.
Multi-Effect Distillation (MED): Saline water Is heated to produce water vapor, from which Is condensed potable fresh water. This process requires large amounts of energy, regardless of the salinity of the source water. It becomes more cost effective as water volumes increase.
Electrodialysis (ED): Electricity is used to selectively move salts through a membrane. Consumption of energy Is directly proportional to the salinity of the water to be treated, so with higher salinities the process rapidly becomes more costly than other methods. ED membranes need to be replaced every 7 to 10years.
Based on the information provided, which one of the following benefits to Welleby is most likely to result from Its building a desalination plant?

Question75: Was the median height of the 25 children in a certain class at least 2 percent greater than the average (arithmetic mean) height of the 25 children?
(1) The median height of the 25 children was 2 centimetefs greater than their average height.
(2) The sun of the heights of the 25 children was less than 2,550 centimeters.

Question76: Archaeologists have excavated two ancient sites, Site A and Site B, each containing bowls and dishes. A third site containing similar vessels (bowls and dishes), Site C, Is known to have existed but has not yet been located. The vessels have been dated to three successive 40-vear-long time periods (Mil).
The dishes that were found are small and plain and were made primarily for everyday use. For each site, the average population at the site for a period is known to be roughly proportional to the number of dishes found that were dated to that period.
The bowls are more elaborate, decorated In either a curvy or a rectilinear style. They were made primarily for ritual use. The numbers of bowls found indicate the level of wealth of the site's inhabitants during the period to which the bowls were dated (with greater numbers indicating greater wealth).
Documents found at Sites A and B establish that exactly 18 of the dishes found at Site A were manufactured at Site C; otherwise, all of the vessels were made at the sites where they were found.


For each of the following statements, select Yes if the Information provided supports the statement. Otherwise, select No.

Question77: Using computer models, ecologist Werner Kurtz is able both to weigh the effect of the beetle outbreak by indicating the health the forest would most likely be enjoying today had the beetle population not exploded and to predict the consequences for the forest should beetle population increases continue unabated.

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Question79: According to the passage, Karev's hypothesis suggests which of the following about people's choices of seating in movie theaters?

Question80: The lack of rain means any microofganism-bearlng particles could persist in the atmosphere for months-long enough, perhaps, for scores of reproduction cycles.

Question81: =Psychologist: Early humans lived primarily in small bands. As a result, humans today are naturally adapted to group Interactions. Hence, social connections and participation in the community are necessary to maintain good emotional health.
Which of the following is an assumption the psychologist's argument requires?

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Question84: TV critic: Contrary to popular belief, the densely plotted script of modern television comedy typically demands far more insight from the viewer than did the crude products of the past Although much recent television comedy is inane, this does not mean that television is being "dumbed down." Today's worst programs should be measured not against the best and most renowned products of yesteryear but rather against the worst.
In the TV critic's argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

Question85: Jack's 1996 salary was x percent greater than his 1995 salary, and his 1997 salary was y percent greater than his 1996 salary. Kate's 1996 salary was y percent greater thar her 1995 salary, and her 1997 salary was x percent greater than her 1996 salary. Was Jack's 1997 salary equal to Kate's 1997 salary?
(1) Jack's 1995 salary was equal to Kate's 1995 salary.
(2) The dollar increase in Jack's salary from 1995 to 1997 was equal to the dollar increase in Kate's salary from
1995 to 1997.

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Select from the drop-down menus the options that create the statement that te most clearly supported by the Information In the graph.

Question87: According to the passage, organizational ecology studies support which of the following statements regarding structurally equivalent organizations?

Question88: Executive: For this year, our firm's advertising budget for Brand X is four times that for last year, but only half that for the year before last. For each year, for each of our brands, our advertising budget is 10 percent of the average (arithmetic mean) of two amounts: the brand's projected sales for the year and the brand's actual sales for the preceding year. Actual sales of Brand X last year were $5.23 million.
Statement A: Given the executive's statements, a journalist could infer what this year's advertising budget for Brand X is if she knew what the amount of was.
Statement B: Given the knowledge of this year's advertising budget for Brand X, if the reporter also knew Brand X's actual sales for the year before last, she could also infer :
Select for A and for 8 two different options that, if inserted in the blanks, create statements that are supported by the statements attributed to the executive. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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Question90: The sum of the first n positive integers is given by

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What is the sum of the first 100 positive odd integers?

Question91: Journal
The editor of Metathesis, a new academic journal of literature, manages the peer-review of articles submitted for publication. The journal accepts articles focusing on any of three general subject areas: comparative literature, modernist literature, and postcolonial literature.
When an article is submitted, the editor has the article peer-reviewed by exactly three experts, none of whom authored or coauthored the article. The table (see the Reviewers/Authors tab) consists of all the authors or coauthors who have recently submitted articles and all the experts who currently peer-review or have recently peer-reviewed those articles. It also lists the general subject areas for each of the authors and reviewers.
Each author of each submitted article specializes in the general subject area of the article. Moreover, each recently submitted article was peer-reviewed by experts listed in the table.
Review Rules

Suppose Laprade was the secondary reviewer of a recently submitted article. For each of the following statements, select Keslf the statement must be true, based on this supposition and the information provided.
Otherwise, select Ato.

Question92: Elena has worked as a real estate agent for exactly 3 years-Years 1, 2, and 3. In Year 1, she sold exactly 16 properties. She sold more proper and more properties in Year 3 than in Year 2. The average (arithmetic mean) number of properties she sold per year for the 3 years was 19.
Select a number for Year 2 and a number for Year 5 that could be the total numbers of properties Elena sold in Year 2 and in Year 3, respectively, so that the selections are jointly consistent with the information provided.
Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question93: Which of the following does the passage suggest is true?

Question94: The primary purpose of the passage Is to

Question95: Does the positive integer n have at least four positive prime factors?

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Question97: For each of the four types of rooms in a certain hotel in June of last year, the table shows the number of rooms of that type in the hotel and the total number of nights booked, such that each night on which any given room is booked counts as one night booked. For example, because there were 10 rooms of the Garden Family type and there were 30 nights in June, the greatest possible number of nights booked for rooms of the Garden Family type was 10 multiplied by 30, or 300 (of which a total of 164 nights were actually booked). A room was considered vacant on any night on which it was not booked.

For each of the following room types in June of last year, select Yes if the average (arithmetic mean) number of vacancies (instances of a particular room being vacant on a particular night) per night for rooms of that type was greater than 2. Otherwise, select No.

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Question99: A quantity of solution that is 3% salt by volume was mixed with a quantity of solution that is 9% salt by volume to produce a quantity of solution that is 4% salt by volume. How many liters of the 9% solution were used?
(1) The quantity of 3% solution was 5 times the quantity of 9% solution.
(2) The quantity of 4% solution produced was 150 liters.

Question100: We need not, however, asaibe careerist motivations to all movement participants, some may have them, but others may aim to amass prestige and influence simply because they fervently believe in the movement's intellectual merit.

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the relationship between the study's results and the researchers' hypotheses?

Question102: The law imposes criminal liability on corporate officials who are responsible for distributing food and drug products if they fail to fulfill their specific duty for implementing measures to ensure that violations of safety rules do not occur.

Question103: Automobile manufacturers improved the miles-per-gallon performance of their cars 60 percent between 1973 and 1988, but this trend now seems to be reversing: as 1996 year when the cars going into junkyards were getting better gas mileage than the ones rolling off dealers' lots.

Question104: Kevin, Leo, and Max each received a monetary award for their work on project X.
If the total of the 3 awards was $705, was the average (arithmetic mean) of the 3 awards equal to the median of the 3 awards?
(1) Kevin's award was $235.
(2) Leo's award was S70 greater than Max's award.

Question105: Company J is reducing its information technology (IT) staff by one-half but is requiring the IT department to continue meeting all the IT needs of the employees. IT managers plan to accomplish this by investing in a computer program that relieves employees of the need to remember their passwords for logging in to Company J's numerous office systems. Half of the IT staffs time is currently spent on password-related assistance, so once the program is implemented, Company J can make the required staff cuts.
Which of the following would it be most useful to know in order to evaluate whether the IT managers' plan is feasible as a means to continue meeting the IT needs of the employees?

Question106:
The figure above shows a playground with Its dimensions given In meters. What is the area, In square meters, on the playground?

Question107: A region in a plane is said to be convex if, for every two points in the region, the line segment joining the two points is completely contained in the region. If a sector of a circle has a central angle with degree measure m >
0, which of the following determines the set of all values of m (less than 360) for which the sector is convex?

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Question109: Although a village in a drouqht-stncken area may at first be resistant to using new agricultural techniques, if the village leaders are consulted beforehand and the benefits of the techniques are demonstrated clearly, the agricultural ministry can often effect a real and positive change in agricultural productivity and thus in economic security.

Question110: For a sales promotion, a dog food producer produces packages with 40 percent more dog food than the regular-size package and sells the larger package for the same price as the usual price of the regular-size package. Compared to the regular-size package at its usual price, approximately what percent less is the price per ounce of the larger package of dog food?

Question111: The decision-making model is unique in not only making prescriptions about proper leader behavkx while arriving at decisions but also gives prescriptions for the decision maker to follow.

Question112: How many of the Integers from 100 to 999, Inclusive, do NOT contain either the digit 2 or the digit 5 ?

Question113: Although a substantial body of evidence Indicates that flexible and participative work arrangements make possible significant performance advantages over more traditional centralized and hierarchical structures, the proportion of businesses that have so transformed themselves remains quite small. Why, then, do firms that purport to be rationally acting organizations appear to resist the very methods that would best equip them to achieve their stated goals?
The passage most strongly suggests that most firms aim to

Question114: At a carnival game, a winning player spins a wheel that always lands on either Prize 1 or Prize 2 to determine which of the two prizes he or she wins. The probability that the prize wheel indicates Prize 2 Is double the probability that It indicates Prize 1. If a player does not want the prize that the prize wheel first indicates, then he or she may spin the wheel again. In such cases, the player must accept whichever prize the prize wheel indicates on the second spin.
Select for Prize I the number nearest to the probability that a winning player who wants Prize 1 will receive Prize 1 after one or two spins of the prize wheel, and select for Prize ^the number nearest to the probability that a winning player who wants Prize 2 will receive Prize 2 after one or two spins of the prize wheel. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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1) The range of the seven term is 5.
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Question117: The table gives Information about teacher absenteeism in 21 school systems worldwide for 2012-2013. For each school system, the table gives the country where It Is located, the number of teachers It employed m
2012-2013, the average number of days those teachers were absent, and the percent of those teachers who were chronically absent (absent 18 or more days).

For each of the following statements, select Yes if, based on the information provided, it can be inferred that the statement is true. Otherwise, select NO.

Question118: It can be inferred from the passage that Sorenson and Audia's argument differs in part from the economic explanations mentioned in the highlighted text in that Sorenson and Audia claim that

Question119: As discussed in the passage, smoothing production is primarily concerned with

Question120:
The graph shows the total annual revenue. In US dollars (US$), from sales of each of 2 competing health-care products for 10 consecutive years. Product 1 was first sold In Year 1, and Product 2 was first sold ki Year 2.
From each drop-down menu, select the option that creates the most accurate statement based on the information provided.

Question121: Which of the following is the most likely reason that the author mentions the work o* the astronomers in 1998 (see highlighted text)?

Question122: Which of the following most logically completes the passage below?
Mayor: Commuters working in Ornville must cross either North Bridge or South Bridge. During impending repair work at the North Bridge toll plaza, North Bridge will remain open to traffic, but the usual 25 cent toll will not be collected. So as not to lose toll revenue overall, the city plans to temporarily raise the toll on South Bridge by 20 cents.
The plan is likely to accomplish its objective, since more commuters currently use South Bridge, and
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Question124: Incumbents in the United States House of Representatives who spend large amounts of money on a reelection campaign usually lose, whereas those who spend relatively little money usually win. Thus, heavy campaign spending is detrimental to an incumbent's reelection campaign.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

Question125: Of the 45 households in a certain neighborhood, 28 subscribe to Newspaper Q, 17 subscribe to Newspaper R,
12 subscribe to Newspaper S, 7 subscribe to both Q and R, 8 subscribe to both Q and 5, and 9 subscribe to both R and 5. The number of households who subscribe to all three newspapers is equal to the number of households who subscribe to none of the three newspapers. If 39 of the households subscribe to at least one of the three newspapers, how many households subscribe to only one of the newspapers?

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Question127: If estuary managers were informed that Pacific temperatures near the bay are likely to fall, their taking which of the following actions would be most likely to prevent a recurrence of phytoplankton blooms?

Question128: The author implies that if, in the experiment described in the second paragraph, the parasitic wasps had been drawn to the plants after they had been damaged by a razor blade but without application of oral secretions from the caterpillar, then scientists would likely have concluded which of the following?
Wasps are attracted to the plants by the grassy odor released as the caterpillars feed on the plants' leaves.

Question129: By understanding the fundamental nature of human immune response, scientists can both study ways to reduce excessive activity of the immune system. such as occur in autoimmune diseases like diabetes, and to amplify the immune response, as a new way of fighting diseases like cancer.

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Question131: Professor: One expert on Norse culture argues that since yarn (fiber thread) samples discovered at non-Norse archaeological sites, those related to the aboriginal Dorset people in the East Arctic, are similar to prehistoric Norse yarn samples, and since spinning was not a part of the technology of northern aboriginal peoples, the Dorset samples constitute proof of contact between these aboriginal people and Norse Vikings. The fact that radiocarbon dating seems to indicate that the Dorset samples predate Norse arrival in the region by centuries is dismissed by the expert as an anomaly attributable to significant problems with the dating of textiles found at Arctic sites. But this position seems questionable, given that Which of the following would, if true, most logically complete the professor's argument above?

Question132: A certain investment of $2.000 earns interest at a fixed annual rate, with interest paid monthly to the investor.
If the monthly interest payment is $10, what is the annual interest rate?

Question133: Acme Software plans to release a partial version of its X software, which will be the same as the full version except that some features will be disabled and K wM cost half as much. Company executives believe marketing both products at once will substantially increase profits. They think some customers who would not have bought the full version will buy the partial version. Profits from seeing to those customers, they believe, will exceed the money lost by selling the partial version to customers who would have paid more for the full version if it were the only one avalabie.
Which of the following would, if true, provide the strongest reason to doubt that Acme Software's plan will result in higher profits?

Question134: A company processes boxes that have a number of different dimensions. Based on the dimensions of the boxes, the company classifies all of them In three categories.
A, B. and C. The table Ms some examples of boxes, their Dimensions, and their classification categories.

Question135: Many of the examples In the new book about the Kamuxa culture were taken-and researchers in the nineteenth century but were not available until very recently.

Question136: If x is the median of a certain set of consecutive positive integers, which of the following must be true?
I. x Is positive.
II. x is even.
III. x is an integer.

Question137: Because of the positive correlation across animal species between body size and home range size, researchers suspected that body size of female mallards (a species of duck) may influence their home range size. The researchers also reasoned that younger females may be forced into less suitable habitats by older females competing with them for optimal areas, with the younger females compensating by having larger home ranges.
However, their research supported neither suspicion. The failure to detect variation of range size according to body size may be due to other, undetermined mallard attributes (for example, body condition) that may have been a significant factor affecting home range size. The fact that most yearling females can breed may help to explain why the expected age effect was not confirmed, since home range size may be affected by breeding capability.
The researchers did find, however, that home range size of females was Inversely related to the percentage of the study area composed of seasonal or semipermanent wetlands. This may have been because of reduced competition for breeding space within the species when more of the wetlands were present. They also found home range size to decrease somewhat as the percentage of wood-shrub habitat increased, suggesting that reduction in visual contact among mallard pairs may reduce interaction and thus reduce competition among breeding pairs.
The passage most strongly suggests which of the following about mallard competition?

Question138: The passage suggests that one reason that the "conditions of captivity" (see bolded text) were significant was that

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Question140: A certain municipality is deliberating over whether it will adopt a policy that would require it to have a balanced budget each year. Proponents prefer the policy because it would keep the municipality from spending more money than it receives, but critics argue that the policy should allow for exceptions so the municipality can respond to crises that might temporarily require spending beyond that amount.
From among the options below, select for Response to the critics and for Reply to that response two statements such that the first, if true, most strongly undermines the critics' argument and the second, if true, is the critics' strongest reply to that response. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question141: A certain law firm has 28 lawyers and has offices in three states, X, Y, and Z.
Every lawyer in the firm is either Scensed in all three states or is licensed in only one of the three states.
If 10 lawyers are kensed in State X, 11 are licensed in State Y, and 13 are licensed in State Z, how many lawyers are licensed only in State Z ?

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Question143: Civil disobedience fan make a political point by refusing to copy restrictive regulations, answer a summons or In not cooperating with authorities such as the police.

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Question145: The scientists discussed in the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statements about attempting to limit phytoplankton blooms in an estuary by placing restrictions on discharges from wastewater treatment plants and runoff from agricultural fields?

Question146: Because of the positive correlation across animal species between body size and home range size, researchers suspected that body size of female mallards (a species of duck) may influence their home range size. The researchers also reasoned that younger females may be forced into less suitable habitats by older females competing with them for optimal areas, with the younger females compensating by having larger home ranges.
However, their research supported neither suspicion. The failure to detect variation of range size according to body size may be due to other, undetermined mallard attributes (for example, body condition) that may have been a significant factor affecting home range size. The fact that most yearling females can breed may help to explain why the expected age effect was not confirmed, since home range size may be affected by breeding capability.
The researchers did find, however, that home range size of females was Inversely related to the percentage of the study area composed of seasonal or semipermanent wetlands. This may have been because of reduced competition for breeding space within the species when more of the wetlands were present. They also found home range size to decrease somewhat as the percentage of wood-shrub habitat increased, suggesting that reduction in visual contact among mallard pairs may reduce interaction and thus reduce competition among breeding pairs.
The author's purpose in making the statement that most yearling female mallards are able to breed is most likely in order to

Question147: A certain local bakery operates 7 days a week. On Monday of next week, the bakery will begin a new schedule for baking 3 specialty breads. Under the new schedule, millet bread will be baked on Monday of next week and will be baked again every other day thereafter (Wednesday, Friday, and so on). Seven-grain bread will also be baked on Monday of next week, and will be baked again every third day thereafter (Thursday, Sunday, and so on). Pumpernickel bread will be baked on Tuesday of next week and will be baked again every third day thereafter. The schedule will continue indefinitely, and these 3 breads will not be baked at any times other than those specified.
In the table, select First day for none of the J for the day of the week on which, for the first time under the new schedule, none of the 3 specialty breads will be baked; select Second day for none of the 3'forthe day of the week on which, for the second time under the new schedule, none of the 3 specialty breads will be baked.
Make only two selections, one in each column.

Question148: The term "electric-drive vehicles" not only Includes cars powered bv batteries charged with household current but also vehicles generating electricity on board or storing it in devices other than batteries.