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<p>A financially efficient method of clearing roadways of excessive congestion is to expand the number of bus routes between cities and suburbs lying 5 to 50 miles apart. Doing so would be less expensive than expanding highway capacity and would simultaneously decrease the number of vehicles making their way between destinations at any given time.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, could proponents of the plan above most appropriately cite as a piece of evidence for the soundness of their plan?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Many car dealers provide leasing services that allow an individual uninterested in purchasing a car to be able to use one when needed and to put an initial payment toward a purchase should the consumer later decide to buy the car once the contract has expired.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">In his new book, Rafe Esquith, a teacher in Los Angeles, stresses the importance of a strong educational system in countering the deplorable effects of a culture in which pop stars and actors had supplanted the scientists and researchers that were one time considered worthy of emulation.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Igor Stravinsky’s familiarity with the music and folklore of Russia, France, and that of England were essential to his development as a composer, underpinning both his modern sensibility as much as his major works.p>
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<p>Which of the following expressions is equivalent to ?p>
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<p>The primary purpose of the passage is top>
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<p>A rectangular rug is a third as long as it is wide. If its area is 45 square feet, then its dimensions in feet arep>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Although the theater would increase its revenue by placing a snack bar in the lobby, we should not go forward with this plan. Installing a snack bar in the lobby would not be in everyone’s best interest. If people start bringing more snacks into the theater, the delicate furniture will become dirty more quickly.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Houston comprises a square mileage about four times as large as New York City but only two million in population, where many are suburban residents living well outside the area generally considered the city center.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Margaret Visser, the well-known writer of both The Rituals of Dinner, an exhaustive book on the history of table manners throughout the world, and also Much Depends on Dinner, a more specific look at four elements of common meals, is an expert specialist on etiquette throughout history.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Whereas in insects the small organs that collect oxygen from the atmosphere are distributed throughout the organism, in mammals the organs are located exclusively in the abdomen.p>
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<p>If  and  are positive integers and if  , which of the following must be true?p>
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Even though the direct costs of agricultural subsidies amounts to a sum lower than 2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product last year, economists say subsidy roll-outs play a major role in determining taxation policies.
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<p>Since neighboring country Bordland dropped all tariffs on imports of our country's automobiles one year ago, the number of automobiles sold annually in Bordland has not changed. However, recent statistics show a drop in the number of automobile factory workers in Bordland. Meanwhile, the number of people employed by automobile factories in our country has long been significantly higher than in Bordland. Therefore, updated trade statistics will probably indicate that the number of automobiles Bordland imports annually from our country has increased.p>
<p>Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?p>
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<p>A "vice tax" can suppress demand for a product or service that is not wholly in the public's favor by making it more expensive. The country of Balbonia wished to duplicate Geraldia's success in using a vice tax to reduce the sales of nicotine products, such as cigarettes. When Balbonia introduced the same tax into its market, however, demand for nicotine products remained undiminished, even though the currency-adjusted prices of nicotine in Balbonia rose to levels equivalent to those in Geraldia.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the contrasting impact of the two instances of vice tax described above?p>
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<p>Which of the following statements, if true, most weakens the authors' suggestion that the record of X-ray binaries provides evidence for the existence of black holes?p>
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<p class="ng-scope">It would take one machine 7 hours to complete a large production order and another machine 5 hours to complete the same order. If they can work on the order simultaneously without interfering with each other, how many hours would it take both machines, working simultaneously at their respective constant rates, to complete the order?p>
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<p>The term "negative feedback" comes originally not from psychology, but from electronics, which uses the term to describe a part of a circuit that detects a positive signal and that, in response, takes action to diminish that signal.p>
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<p>Utility Corp, a company with a specific level of cash in its budget, has been clearing uninhabited land near a national park for the construction of a coal plant. This practice continues even though greater annual profits can be made from a nuclear plant, which will not damage the nearby park, than from a coal plant, which will injure the habitat.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why Utility Corp has been pursuing the less profitable of the two economic activities mentioned above?p>
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<p>Seattle's osprey population has been declining in recent years, primarily because of hunting, both legal and illegal. Osprey prey heavily on salmon, yet the naturally occurring population of salmon has also declined, even though the annual number caught for human consumption has not increased.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the decline in the population of the salmon?p>
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