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<p>According to the passage, methods of predicting earthquakes that are widely used today are based on which of the following facts?p>
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<p class="ng-scope">The passage most directly suggests which of the following about fishermen?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following most closely models the organization of the passage?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following best conveys the relationship between the statement about the mountains' appearance () and the passage as a whole?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Some prehistoric pots made by the Woodland people have patterned markings that indicate the pot was formed using the paddling method. These patterned markings result only from this particular method. Thus archaeologists’ recent discovery of similar patterned markings on the pots made by the Mill Creek people suggests that the Mill Creek people used the paddling method, not just the coiling method.p>
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<p>It is generally believed that people need to engage in regular and strenuous physical exercise in order to maintain their physical health. Actually, however, low-impact walking—that is, walking at a normal pace, which elevates the heart rate and releases many of the hormones released in more strenuous exercise—is enough. This is evidenced by the strong correlation between the amount of time spent walking and measures of general physical health demonstrated by many studies.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the force of the evidence cited?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Online retailers have made it easy to purchase a variety of items without leaving the house; it remains to be seen whether shoppers will cease to visit malls and browse the stores as their inventories have grown even more extensive.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Black bears, many of them for a very long time, hibernate just like groundhogs do, yet being not considered “true hibernators” because their body temperatures do not drop below 20 degrees Celsius.p>
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<p>The information in the passage suggests that which of the following statements from hypothetical historical studies of economic change in political history most clearly exemplifies the economic determinists’ vision of historical change?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The construction of Foxboro Stadium, which was officially known as Schaefer Stadium, started in 1970, during the governorship of Francis Sargent, was completed a year later, during the same administration.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The human resources department of a company is considering policies that would encourage all employees to implement healthier eating habits at home and at work, adhere to a more regular sleep schedule, and to participate in a fitness program to include cardiovascular, strength training, and flexibility elements.p>
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<p>Consumer advocate: Your company’s cars are likely to require major repairs in the third year after customers buy them. This shows that you intend for your cars to break down at the end of the two-year warranty period.p>
<p>Car manufacturer: Our cars require fewer repairs in the first five years of ownership than our major competitor’s cars do.p>
<p>The car manufacturer’s response is flawed as a refutation of the consumer advocate’s argument because itp>
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<p>The author describes the typical hunting strategies of terrestrial spider species () primarily in order top>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Over the next few decades, the effects of warming temperatures on the Northeast’s fall foliage, which covers large areas in New England, could change the pH of the soil, which would strip the sugar maple trees there of their color, and to make them more dull in hue, less dramatic, and less popular with tourists.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Uncomfortable with parsing the enormous quantities of data aggregated through their new collection methods, actuaries are assisting many of the organizations who employ them to analyze information that would have been previously difficult to handle.p>
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<p>Plan: As part of its Healthy Students Initiative, Happy Meadows Elementary School decided two years ago to raise its school lunch budget by 20 percent in order to serve healthier food to its students. Result: The nutritional quality of Happy Meadows’ school lunches is no better now than it was two years ago. Further information: the annual rate of inflation since the budget change has been below 4 percent, and all of the money budgeted for lunches has been received by the school cafeteria.p>
<p>In light of the further information, which of the following, if true, would best explain the result that followed from the implementation of the plan?p>
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<p>Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?p>
<p>Nessus Valley Machinery is trying to decide between manufacturing screws out of steel or screws out of aluminum. Both types of screw typically cost about the same to produce and they sell at comparable prices. Because one of Nessus Valley’s primary customers, an automotive company, is discontinuing the truck they produce that uses steel screws, the market for steel screws, though not for aluminum screws, will be significantly smaller than usual. Therefore, producing screws from aluminum will be more profitable than producing screws from steel, because _______.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">While deciding its health care reimbursement policy, the organization took into account only the medical costs associated with hospitalization and not the additional indirect costs associated with lost days at work.p>
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<p>A bag has 32 yellow, red, blue and green balls. If one ball is drawn from the bag at random, the probability that it will be green is 0.5, and the probability that it will be blue is 0.25. What is the probability that the ball will be either red or yellow?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Although dozens of Chinese delicacies are either made from rice wine or cornstarch, there are many dishes made from more exotic ingredients such as lily buds, shark's fin, and winter melon.p>
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