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<p>Venture capital firms pump millions of dollars each year into a variety of start-up companies, expecting most to fail but a few to give astronomical returns. However, optimism and positivity are keys to success in the start-up industry; no start-up wants to admit that it is on its way towards failure. Therefore, venture capital firms remain uncertain about the status of a majority of their investments.p>
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<p>A data software company founded this year claims given access to a client company's database that it can provide various types of analysis of unstructured data within various specified levels of security controls.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Mumbai’s fishing community is suffering as a result of increasing water pollution, a stretch of bad weather, as well as the harmful effects of oil drilling that is persistent.p>
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<p>Smartphones have allowed users to remain connected to the Internet, but they have also been blamed for distracting drivers, causing hundreds of accidents, and creating an increase in highway fatalities.p>
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<p>If Vince works 4 hours at a museum and earns  dollars per hour, and he works 6 hours at an office and earns  dollars per hour, what is the average amount, in dollars, that Vince earns per hour?p>
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<p>According to the passage, each of the following is a consequence of increasing minimum wages EXCEPT:p>
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It would take one landscaper 45 minutes to mow a lawn and another landscaper 60 minutes to mow the same lawn. How many minutes would it take both landscapers, working simultaneously at their respective constant rates, to mow the lawn?
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<p>In the phenomenon known as blindsight, some people who have been diagnosed as completely blind after damage to their visual cortex nonetheless retain the ability to make judgments and take actions that appear to require or demonstrate the use of sight. Despite the fact that they consciously see nothing, such individuals might, if prompted, catch a ball thrown, walk around obstacles, or guess with unusual accuracy whether an array of dots is moving or stationary. Individuals with blindsight are usually not surprised by these events and attribute them to coincidence.p>
<p>Which of the following questions indicates the most serious weakness in the explanation that those with blindsight ascribe to their abilities?p>
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<p>In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Researchers still detect high amounts of radiation in the Pripyat moss, which are consistent with the predicted effects of the reactor meltdown there.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Although John Milton may be best known for his written work with heavily Protestant overtones, as both a poet and as a polemicist for personal freedom and freedom of conscience, also working as a civil servant within the government of Oliver Cromwell.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Almost like chihuahuas in that they have been irresponsibly bred, the brachycephalic dog breeds’ flat faces make them particularly prone to respiratory problems.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The underlying fur pattern of a tabby cat is visible on cats with one ticked tabby gene but is never seen on those with two copies of the gene.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Because Johnson’s research is unreliable, any perceived relationship of the consuming of coconut oil and living longer is entirely unpersuasive.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Alan Moore, in his graphic novel narratives, deliberately infusing them with his intellectual interests, used his incisive mind to revolutionize what were once considered “mere comic books.”p>
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<p>Which of the following most logically completes the passage?p>
<p>The EPA released a report on Wednesday indicating that increasing incidence of algal blooms in a lake close to Eleusis is linked to fertilizer washed into the water from nearby farms after periods of heavy rain. To prevent reoccurrence of the blooms, the agency implemented regulations that will go into effect in two years mandating the use of another fertilizer shown not to cause algal blooms if introduced into water sources.p>
<p>Though area farmers anticipate making the switch within one year, the agency does not expect that the incidence of algal blooms will decline before its regulations take effect, because _______.p>
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<p>According to the passage, many of the countries administered by Spain watched the radical political changes occurring in Europe and North America for which of the following reasons?p>
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<p>The author suggests that which of the following is a disadvantage of spiders restricted to hunting in forested environments?p>
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