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<p>When driving with headlights on at their normal setting, cars equipped with High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights emit extremely bright light that far exceeds the amount normally required for driving at night and can temporarily blind other drivers. Because the use of these headlights increases the risk of accidents, legislation is needed to regulate their sale.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the argument above?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">A hexadecimal rounding glitch, which a major technology company introduced into its product through a botched update developed by DynamoCorp, prolonged from 23 seconds to a week and a day the time it took for compiling code.p>
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<p>Which of the following most accurately describes the organization of the passage?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Although there are multiple methods for teaching young children to read, phonics instruction can make it difficult to transition to reading more difficult texts in adolescence and adulthood. Hours spent learning to read in a way specifically geared toward children are hours spent not learning to process written language like an adult. Thus, children who spend the earliest years of their education subject to phonics instruction will be at a disadvantage as they age.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The argument depends on which of the following assumptions?p>
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<p>The author of the passage would be most likely to make which of the following recommendations to practitioners of autoethnography?p>
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<p>Biology student: Microsatellites are repeated patterns of two, three, or four nucleotides within a DNA sequence that are unique to a particular lineage. Therefore, after breeding one hundred generations of fruit flies, we will be able to trace any particular fruit fly to its ancestor using the presence of certain microsatellites within its DNA.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the student’s argument?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Most of the Greek coinage discovered in modern Afghanistan dates from the time of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, minted either by the rulers of Alexander the Great’s successor state or the Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian civilizations that followed.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Even though a few of the manuscripts found recently in southern Germany would seem to corroborate popular accounts of early-medieval migrations, the abundance of ambiguous sources seem more likely at the moment that they will prolong controversy over the patterns of migration rather than resolve them.p>
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<p>As a form of public transportation, trains are faster than buses and more accessible than subways. Furthermore, in most situations, constructing a train line is much less expensive than establishing a subway line. In most situations, as a result, establishing a railroad is the best way to connect communities, except for communities that derive most of their income from winter sports tourism.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, would best explain the exception given above?p>
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<p>City budget advisor: If Thomaston wants to decrease its unemployment rate, it should lower the minimum wage, so companies can hire more employees. Records from neighboring cities show that whenever the minimum wage is lowered, within three years the city’s unemployment rate decreases by 1 to 2 percent.p>
<p>Which of the following would it be most helpful to know in order to assess the city budget advisor’s suggestion?p>
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<p>Many companies in the software industry are known for maintaining stressful, highly competitive work environments, often driving overworked employees to quit or to burn out. MuaDiB Softworks, however, is widely known for easing employees’ workplace stress through its pleasant office environment. MuaDiB attributes this reputation to its preference for traditional, enclosed offices over the open office layouts in vogue among other software companies.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports MuaDiB’s explanation of its reputation for easing employees’ workplace stress?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">To formulate more efficient business plans, operations officers need to understand quite a bit more than currently about the practical and logistical exigencies of production.p>
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<p>An online retailer hopes to increase profits with personalized emails to a target market segment. Designing the personalization software will be costly, but the retailer hopes that potential buyers will respond to the greater sense of intimacy by making a purchase. In the long run, the retailer expects that customers will come to expect such intimacy and become loyal customers.p>
<p>What would be most useful to know in order to assess the plan’s likelihood of success?p>
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<p>A study of class payments for a local art studio found that individual painting classes students paid for directly had a cancellation rate of less than five percent, while those who signed up in advance for a twelve-class package had a cancellation rate of more than 25 percent. This might have been caused at least partially by the fact that the more aware students are of the cost of a course, the higher the chance that they will attend.p>
<p>Which of the following would, if true, best serve as an alternative explanation of the results of the study?p>
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<p>Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the passage’s argument that some changes to Britain’s consumption patterns indeed began in the eighteenth century?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Government official: Before 1972, the first four digits of a person’s Social Security Number (SSN), known as the area number, corresponded to the location where the SSN was assigned. Each Social Security office has its own unique code. Therefore, whenever two people have SSNs with the same first four digits, and the SSNs were issued before 1972, they must have received their SSNs from the same office.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the official’s argument?p>
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<p>The primary purpose of the passage is top>
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<p>The passage mentions each of the following as having an unwarranted influence on the stock market EXCEPTp>
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If A is the initial amount put into an account, P is the annual percentage rate of interest, which remains fixed, and the account compounds quarterly, which of the following is an expression, in terms of A and P, for the amount in the account after 5 years?
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<p>It can be inferred from the passage that snowfall at locations where ice cores are extractedp>
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