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<p>Given that, recently, the founders of startup company Zeddifreddo have confirmed that they are in the late stages of discussion of an acquisition offer from another company, other potential acquirers of the company, who had suspected that Zeddifreddo's business performance was mostly hype and not a product of sound financials, have taken interest in making their own acquisition offers. They figure that, if Zeddifreddo's current potential acquirer has reached late stages of an acquisition discussion without having withdrawn its bid, that the acquirer must have had a chance to audit Zeddifreddo's financial position and has found it to be sound. Such reasoning might be hasty, however, since potential acquirers of a startup have been known to overlook that company's financial soundness and favor the acquisition on other grounds, however ill-advised such a position may be.p>
<p>In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?p>
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<p>Through Topeka airport, the volume of plane travel is just enough for the commercial airlines to make modest profits. The size of the city's population is stable and is not expected to increase much. Yet there are investors ready to double the number of flights to and from the airport within ten years, and they are predicting solid profits both for themselves and for the established airlines.p>
<p>Which of the following about the city of Topeka, if true, most helps to provide a justification for the investors' prediction?p>
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<p class="ng-scope">The passage mentions which of the following as a factor contributing to the future ecological impact of electronic reading?p>
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<p>Regional Manager: Several of our stores have recently implemented a new method of taking daily inventory that uses less of our warehouse employees’ time by using more automated processes than the previous system. It is thus clear that the new, more automated system better optimizes these stores’ use of human resources than the older method did.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Keeping with the findings of most contemporary economic analysis of investment and savings programs available to the public, standard savings accounts have less financial benefit than do mutual fund investments managed by professionals and more of a quality they believe is detrimental to long-term savings growth.p>
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<p>Archaeologists, architects, and civil engineers trying to repair the 2,500-year-old architectural wonder known as the Parthenon are still struggling to understand several aspects of its genius: the flawless proportions and balance, the remarkable precision that should have been impossible to achieve without modern tools, and its rapid construction in less than ten years.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Virologists, having learned an enormous amount during the last two decades about HIV/AIDS and its devolution from a fatal to manageable disease, are now learning more details about how the virus changes and how patients transmit the disease.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">A petrified tool discovered at Springfield, Nebraska, was likely a hatchet, as indicated by its square handle and by its general heft, as well as indentations, probably formed by leather bindings, seen near its tip.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">SaveStop, a prominent convenience store chain, sells some of its most popular items at a very low cost. Careful analysis of the chain’s financial reports reveals that these items are actually sold at a loss to the company. Nonetheless, executives claim that the decision to offer these key items at such a low price is an essential component of the company’s business strategy.p>
<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Which of the following, if true, most strongly justifies the claim made by SaveStop’s executives?p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Demand for snowboards is predicted to be lower this year than last because meteorologists have forecast far warmer weather for this winter than they did last year.p>
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Ready4
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Encompassing nearly a third of the planet’s land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining air quality by ridding the atmosphere of excess carbon, and ensuring consistent global temperatures through the storage of greenhouse gases.p>
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">According to recent estimates, per-employee medical expenditure in the United States, which has already been approaching $10,000 a year, will reach $30,000 a year by 2020.p>
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<p>In order to prevent further spread of the deadly plague, the health officials have ordered the bodies of the deceased to be incinerated and that the remains be buried.p>
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Ready4
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<p zoompage-fontsize="16">Bringing the American banks back from the brink of insolvency after the sub-prime mortgage crisis was a government-sanctioned financial bailout.p>
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<p>A minority but influential investor in Quell has recently claimed that the company's stock is undervalued, citing as evidence the announced plan of Quell's CEO, who is the majority shareholder, to sell the company within a short period of time. According to the minority investor, the CEO is permitting or even encouraging an undervalued stock price so that he may get the company sold and liquidate his stake in the company. By accusing the CEO of having personal motives allow the stock price to become distorted, however, the minority investor is guilty of the precise accusation that he himself is making. This investor is known for using his influence to attempt to sway public opinion and meddle in otherwise well-calibrated deals in order to drive up share prices for his personal financial benefit.p>
<p>In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?p>
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<p>The Nowka apparel company's design for its new luxury jacket, the Fleecer, included a special design for a synthetic fabric layer that was intended to complement the model's image. The winning bid for supplying this synthetic fabric was submitted by Rainflex. Analysts concluded that the bid would only just cover Rainflex's costs on the fabric, but Rainflex executives claim that winning the bid will actually make a profit for the company.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most strongly justifies the claim made by Rainflex's executives?p>
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Ready4
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<p>In 1021, Murasaki Shikibu completed The Tale of Genji, a work that, spanning over 50 chapters and 400 characters, and which many scholars, judging its psychological complexity, consider the first novel.p>
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<p>Car dealerships in the state of Fairview have prospered over the term of the current governor: sales are up by 10 percent relative to four years ago. Nevertheless, car manufacturers have found that the proportion of credit they have extended to dealerships that was paid off on time, despite rising over the first two years of this period, has fallen sharply in the latter two years of the governor's term.p>
<p>Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the change between the first two and the second two years of the governor's term in the proportion of credit paid off on time?p>
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Magoosh
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If p and q are two different odd prime numbers such that p < q, then which of the following must be true?
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<p>The passage provides support for which of the following statements?p>
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