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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">A prominent fast-food chain has recently declared that it will eliminate high-fructose corn syrup from its tortillas; the question remains whether potential customers will start and purchase food there after the chain’s products still contain so many other unhealthy ingredients.p>
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<p>Tyromolaradenate, a type of chemical common in certain types of snack foods, is inert in adults and only toxic to children with a rare neurological disorder. Unfortunately, tyromolaradenate is produced as a byproduct of industrial processes necessary for the manufacture of these snack foods. The FDA intends to protect public health by mandating that all snack foods containing tyromolaradenate clearly state so on their packaging. However, many children with this neurological condition are undiagnosed and current screening methods are somewhat unreliable. And food labels will only prove effective at protecting children who know they have the disease.p>
<p>Which of the following, if performed by the FDA, could logically be expected to help the FDA overcome the problem with their plan to protect children susceptible to tyromolaradenate?p>
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<p>Doverland College is implementing a new program through which it will offer a free laptop computer to every incoming freshman. The winning bid for supplying these computers was submitted by Byteco. Analysis shows that the bid will barely cover Byteco’s costs on the computers, but Byteco officials claim that winning the bid will still make a profit for the company.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strongly justifies the claim made by Byteco’s executives?p>
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<p>Which of the following best completes the passage below?p>
<p>When a group of individuals is incapable of passing on its genes, the theory of evolution predicts that the group will be unable to persist over a span of generations, being weeded out through genetic attrition. Therefore, if the theory of evolution is true, and given successful organisms’ tendency to reproduce at high rates, we should expect that _______.p>
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<p>Commuter: I often listen to the radio, and observe that the quality of music played on 1980s flashback programs is generally higher than that of pop music from today’s era. It must be the case that musicians in the ‘80s possessed more creativity, technical skill, and passion than those performing today.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the critic’s argument?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Once established, the Board of Examiners will try and oversee the development for the exam all prospective accountants are to be required to take and to ensure that the exam material is consistent with the knowledge and skill requirements for new accountants.p>
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<p>The Grand Bratislava Hotel, which has three floors, has requested that its elevator maintenance person decrease the speed of the hotel’s elevator by half. The elevator already meets safety requirements, and the change will cause the elevator to use slightly more energy per trip between floors. Nonetheless, the hotel’s management expects the hotel’s energy efficiency to increase as a result of the change without any concurrent change in other operating habits.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, provides the best reason for the expectation?p>
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<p>According to the passage, which of the following statements about short routes between small cities is true?p>
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<p>Which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the perception of historians that the people of antiquity generally saw slavery as an economic necessity and inherent in the world’s natural order?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Several samples of brown limestone found in a Neanderthal cave site in 2016, and did not show signs of wear and tear, making it likely they were collected as curiosities.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Similar to other abstract artists, the works of Wassily Kandinsky built on an idealization focusing initially on non-objective expression, wherein sensations and emotions could be evoked without the use of identifiable objects, as in music.p>
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<p>Although the town would gain increased tax revenue if it licensed slot-machine gambling, the license should be denied. Allowing slot-machine gambling would not be in our residents’ best interest. If our residents begin gambling more, they will have more financial problems.p>
<p>This argument depends on which of the following?p>
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<p>Which of the following most logically completes the argument?p>
<p>Notes from an Elderly Man is a family history that dates from the early Song dynasty in China (960–1279), though the author and exact date of publication have been lost. However, the text documents Hu Chen Quan’s rise to power, which took place in 1183, but does not mention the coup that ended his reign in 1195. Thus Notes from an Elderly Man must have been written between 1183 and 1195, given the assumption that _______.p>
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<p>A city aims to encourage bicycling (and thus improve public health) by converting a lane on a crowded thoroughfare into a bicycle lane. The new design will slow traffic initially, but because the lane is safer the city hopes that more car drivers will switch to bicycling. In the longer term, the city envisions that the street’s traffic will flow more smoothly when a portion of car traffic is reduced.p>
<p>In assessing the plan’s chances of accomplishing its goal, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">While Donald O’Connor is perhaps most famous for his work with Gene Kelly, as both a singer and as a dancer in Singin’ in the Rain and other movies, also playing lead roles as an actor in his own right in such comic movie series as Francis the Talking Mule.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The author’s determination that “the benefits [of patient data collection and analysis] far outweigh the risks” () would be most weakened if which of the following were recognized to be true?p>
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If n is a multiple of 5 and n = $${p}^{2}{q}$$, where p and q are prime numbers, which of the following must be a multiple of 25 ?
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<p>A legal service bills p dollars for the first hour of service on a task and q dollars for each additional hour, where . If the client requires a specific number of hours h of service, how does the amount billed to the client change if the work is broken up into n tasks rather than one task?p>
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<p>Which of the following statements about Winkler’s study on the industrialization of England can be inferred from information in the passage?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Modern geologists understand that the placement of Earth’s continents is traceable to the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea—over millions of years the continents have been subjected to geological forces, vastly changing their locations and thus the geography of the planet.p>
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