Each of the letters in the table above can have a value of 1, 2, or 3. Each row can only have exactly one of each of these numbers, and the same is true for each column. What is the value of ?

(1)

(2)

The graph above shows the percentage of students who take various modes of transportation to/from school for each grade at Fairmount Middle School. If there are 200 6th graders, 300 7th graders, and 200 8th graders, how many students in total take the bus to/from school?

Air and water pollution have done seriously and possibly irreversible damage to the famous white marble on the facade of the Taj Mahal, India's best-known monument.

In the recently concluded parliamentary session, the finance minister has decided that the distressed financial companies need a second, larger infusion of government bailout loans to stay afloat.

A rectangular rug is a third as long as it is wide. If its area is 45 square feet, then its dimensions in feet are

One pocket of a backpack contains only pencils, pens, and highlighters. If a writing utensil is selected at random from this pocket, what is the probability that the chosen writing utensil is either a pen or a highlighter?

(1) The probability of choosing a highlighter is .

(2) The probability of choosing a pencil is

If , which of the following statements must decrease as decreases?

  I.

 II.

III.

What is the area of rectangle ?

(1) The width of rectangle is .

(2) The perimeter of rectangle is .

A small throw rug with a border of uniform width is shown. The width of the rug, not including the border, is 5 feet. What are the dimensions of the rug, including the border?

(1) The border has width of 1 foot and the area of the rug, not including the border, is .

(2) The area of the rug, including the border, is .

On the circle above with center , the length of arc is . What is the circumference of the circle?

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.

The argument depends on which of the following?

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.

Which of the following would, if true, best serve as an alternative explanation of the results of the study?

In the context of the passage, the word “contingent” () most closely aligns with which of the following phrases?

Which of the following most closely models the organization of the passage?

Which of the following best conveys the relationship between the statement about the mountains' appearance () and the passage as a whole?

The author of the passage refers to which of the following as evidence for the conclusion stated in ?

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.

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the criticism made above of the art historians’ strategy?

Some prehistoric pots made by the Woodland people have patterned markings that indicate the pot was formed using the paddling method. These patterned markings result only from this particular method. Thus archaeologists’ recent discovery of similar patterned markings on the pots made by the Mill Creek people suggests that the Mill Creek people used the paddling method, not just the coiling method.

In the passage, the author develops the argument by

Which of the following characteristics of modern sociological practice is most clearly an example of a factor that Weber, as described in the passage, was unable to consider in his writing?