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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Geese initially begin moving from north to south, because that way is the direction that warm weather in the winter lies, but they then return to northern latitudes in the summer, seemingly driven by some instinctual consciousness before repeating the process, year after year.p>
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<p>The previous two years have witnessed a major proliferation of studies demonstrating the health benefits of egg consumption. During the same period, there has been a major decline in the number of eggs consumed by the public at large. Therefore, the majority of the public must be unaware of the findings of recent nutritional research.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the explanation above?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S., and he returned to the continent as an adult to lecture at several major universities.p>
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<p>Politician: Implementing a tax on soda may not reduce soda consumption. In addition to irritating the vast majority of constituents who drink soda at least occasionally, it may inspire people who believe the tax is an overreach to defy the government’s public health initiative by buying more soda than ever. And there is no reason to expect that people who already waste money on empty calories will be deterred from wasting slightly more. The two sections in boldface play which of the following roles in the politician’s argument?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Similar to other modernist architects, the building designs of Richard Neutra derived from the pursuit of functionality drawing out the period’s revolutionary materials cast iron, plate glass, and reinforced concrete and almost incidentally transformed from experimentation into a style of its own.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The 2008 mortgage crisis is thought to have been caused in large part by lender behavior changes, which, like the continuously eroding lending standards that saddled numerous borrowers with impossible payments and led to unsustainably high-risk loans, and the mortgage options that allowed homeowners to pay interest alone for a time, after which many unsuspecting borrowers found themselves unable to pay the increased bills that included payments on the principal.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The movie’s fictional astronaut, stranded on Saturn’s moon Titan, would have had to endure a gravity that is approximately 14 percent that of Earth’s, experience a temperature that averaged about -290°F, breathing a dense and smoggy atmosphere, and perhaps even having to navigate a global methane ocean.p>
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<p>Which of the following best describes the purpose of the second paragraph of the passage?p>
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<p>The passage provides information in support of which of the following assertions?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The foundation of game theory maintains that the outcomes of behavioral relations between individuals can be predicted by calculations and will be ever more reliably modeled as study of the field continues.p>
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<p>Guidebook author: The castle at Aines, France, was constructed in the sixteenth century, and was recently restored. The preservation spokesperson has affirmed that the landscaping almost exactly replicates the type of garden that would have been common in the sixteenth century. Although the style of the landscape artist who designed the garden is very similar to that of the modern landscape artist Nomura Tekkan, Tekkan’s own style is directly inspired by traditional sixteenth-century French landscaping.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">According to a recent article on movie theater box-office receipts, ticket sales of the top 20 movies that were promoted most strongly accounts for nearly half of the $11.3 billion in moviegoing spending in 2015, the rest of which came from ticket sales for the 759 smaller-budget movies that studios either did not promote or promoted relatively lightly.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Despite its representing the whole party, the Libertarians have a National Committee that is not liberal or conservative, rather it is broken into small quarrelsome factions.p>
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<p>Classicist: Researchers studying a cache of documents discovered in Tuscany found that they contain vivid descriptions of a people we believe to be the ancient Chinese. The documents describe expeditions to and diplomatic transactions with a people far to the east dating back to the first century BCE. This shows that the Romans were aware of the Chinese as early as the period of the late Republic, long before historians thought contact was established.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the classicist’s argument?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Government spokesman: The least disruptive way for a government to recoup the cost of student loans is to increase borrowers' interest rates gradually over the life of each loan. But in the state of Vitulia, interest rates are as low as they have been in decades and legislators have promised to keep them that way. Therefore, the least disruptive way to collect student loans in Vitulia will be to increase the sums students are required to pay each month in order to shorten the life of each loan.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following is an assumption of the spokesman’s argument?p>
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<p>For which of the following functions  "h(x)") is =h(2-x) "h(x)=h(2-x)") for all  ?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">The amount of time it takes for Gansett Company to put together its wooden coat racks has decreased as it has installed robots on the assembly line. Given the comparative slowness of its human workers, Gansett Company may be forced to lay off most of its employees, which would be disastrous for the local economy.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following plans, if feasible, would allow Gansett Company to retain most of its workers without losing money?p>
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<p>Seventy-five percent of the available tickets to a concert are sold, and 48 percent of those tickets are for students. If one person with a ticket is to be selected at random, what is the probability that the person selected has a student ticket?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Researchers recently found that people who bought passes to individual fitness classes showed up 99 percent of the time, while those bought a package of five passes in advance only showed up 25 percent of the time. One explanation is that the more aware a gym patron is about the cost of a pass, the more likely that patron is to use it.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">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 zoompage-fontsize="16">Many art historians use Roman copies of Greek statues in order to learn more about Greek sculpture. A problem with this strategy is that statues were often adapted from Greek prototypes to suit the taste of Roman patrons. Indeed, these statues often have distinctive features that are not specific to Greek style.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the art historians’ strategy?p>
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