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<p class="ng-scope">The Cygnus spacecraft was grounded last week ahead of its launch date due to massive coronal ejections from the Sun, which raised radioactivity to such levels so that their avionics systems might malfunction and the navigability of the ship might be compromised.p>
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<p>Which of the following statements about predictions of earthquakes is supported by the information in the passage?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Job placements at several top business schools witnessed a slowdown during the 2008–2009 economic recession. However, enrollment figures at these schools boomed during this period.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Each of the following, if true, helps to explain the enrollment increase at business schools in the situation described above EXCEPT:p>
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<p>The design of an article of clothing generally cannot be patented, but functional aspects or devices attached to clothing or included as attributes of clothing can usually be patented. Therefore, the design of a website selling fashion accessories should not be patentable, but the programming of that website, it if is unique, should be patentable.p>
<p>Which of the following statements, if true, would most strengthen the argument above?p>
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<p>Contrary to earlier predictions, demand for wine has not increased in recent years. Yet, even though prices and production amounts have also been stable during the last three years, wine producers last year increased their profits by more than 10 percent over the previous year's level.p>
<p>Any of the following statements, if true about last year, helps to explain the rise in profits EXCEPT:p>
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<p>Elephants are one of few animal species with intelligence and a capacity for empathy similar to that of humans. They habitually bury their dead by placing sticks and leaves over a member of their herd that has died. They are not known to bury animals other than elephants, but in some cases they have mourned humans with which they had established a relationship, leading to the theory that elephants will bury other animals with which they have had a direct relationship, but only those animals. Surprisingly, however, elephants have been found to visit the burial locations of other elephants they never knew in life.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the surprising finding?p>
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<p>Studies indicate that potential buyers of an expensive product are more likely to go through with their purchase if they have first made a purchase of a related product, such as a less expensive product sold by the same company in the same place. Psychologists attribute this behavior to commitment bias, in which people's present actions are influenced by a desire to act consistently with their past actions. A company that sells expensive products will increase sales of these items by first inducing customers to buy less expensive, easy-to-sell items.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the recommendation above?p>
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<p>Due to efficiency concerns, store management is thinking about pulling employees from longer, eight-hour shifts and assigning them to shorter shifts of four or five hours, coinciding with periods of peak customer traffic. It makes little sense to change schedules like this, however, as studies have shown that customers are less satisfied when they shop at stores whose employees work abbreviated hours. A customer unsatisfied when shopping during peak hours is unlikely to remain a customer for very long.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument given?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Though looking less distinctive than many of their highly sought-after purebred counterparts, mixed-breed dogs, born from genetically disparate parents—they usually display various physical characteristics from each parent—often they are healthier and thus increasingly popular.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest level since the recession, after last week’s disastrous storms in Mongolia led to fears that there could be a threat to the world’s main source of cashmere goats when at a time with their numbers are already low.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Unlike huge conglomerates that process rubber from trees through a laborious industrial process to make various types of rubber-based products, recycling old rubber tires into new consumer goods has allowed smaller manufacturers to invest in more focused niches and maintain profitability.p>
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<p>This year an unprecedented number of professorial positions were produced. Will next year continue the trend? A new professorship is created when an older professor leaves the workforce or when an academic department expands. Within universities, academic departments have been expanding at well below average rates. Concomitantly, statistics indicate that professors teaching currently will be no more likely to leave the workforce next year than they were this year, and surely the new professors who have begun teaching recently are unlikely to leave the workforce for some time. Clearly, we can surmise that the number of new professorial positions produced next year will be lower than this year’s unprecedented level.p>
<p>In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?p>
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<p>In developing a policy platform, major political parties spend significant amounts of time and money supporting those researchers at think tanks who draft the legal details of new policy initiatives. Such researchers are dedicated advocates for the particularities of any policy they draft, so they tend to overlook any method of analysis that may undermine it. Strangely, however, most major political parties neglect to interview voters when developing policy positions, even though it is the voters—not the researchers—who ultimately decide whether a policy is a political success or not.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, best accounts for the typical policy development practices among major political parties?p>
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<p>Which of the choices most logically completes the following argument?p>
<p>Mechanical Engineering Quarterly, though it remains the most prestigious academic journal dedicated to mechanical engineering, has recently experienced diminishing submissions for publication. A number of engineers interested in publication have been submitting their papers to another journal that, having lower editorial standards, accepts more papers for publication than Mechanical Engineering Quarterly, which has some of the highest editorial standards in the industry. In order to increase submissions and thus increase the likelihood of publishing interesting findings, Mechanical Engineering Quarterly’s board of directors has suggested radically increasing the number of papers published. However, this suggestion has a serious drawback, because _______.p>
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<p>Which of the following most accurately summarizes the relationship between Lynch v. Donnelly in lines , and the results of Lemon v. Kurtzman in lines ?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following most logically completes the argument?p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Aarne is an old Finnish artwork whose painter and exact date of composition are unknown. However, the painting portrays a riot thought to have taken place sometime between 1563 and 1567, and in the background of the scene stands a public building known to have been destroyed in 1565. Thus the riot depicted in the painting must have actually taken place between 1563 and 1565, assuming that _______.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">In 1891, an unknown benefactor bailed out the financially struggling Natural History Museum on the condition that the butterfly park be dismantled, setting free more than 16,000 butterflies and moths, collected over five decades, that were legally considered the property of the museum.p>
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<p>If it takes 65 minutes to drive s miles, how many minutes will it take to drive r miles at the same rate?p>
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<p>With which of the following statements would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?p>
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<p>Behavioral psychology studies have yielded evidence that indicates that people tend to seek out evidence that will confirm their hypotheses, and failing to ask disconfirming questions.p>
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