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Locust swarms have ravaged much of Suwathia, resulting in the loss of vital agriculture. A multinational company has recently proposed using metarhizium, a fungus that invades the exoskeleton of the locust, causing a swift death. The government of Suwathia argues that the one means of application of metarhizia—from an airplane—will require a great amount of the fungus, which is difficult to acquire. Given that the locusts propagate rapidly, the government maintains that only a complete annihilation of a locust swarm will have the desired effect.Which of the following, if true, best argues in favor of the multinational company's plan to drop metarhizium over locust swarms?
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At HappyDay farms, seasonal staff is employed to pick apples during the harvest season each year. This staff is trained to identify and select only high quality apples, table-worthy apples. As part of this process, apples that have been visibly damaged by insects or disease are left to rot in the fields. The farmer who owns the property and sells the fruit is, therefore, less well informed about potential problems with his crops, such as insect infestations, than are the pickers themselves.The conclusion drawn above is based on the assumption that
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A class consists of 24 students. Which of the following CANNOT be the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys?
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The candidate spent a significant time in the South, preaching a strong message of family values, lest he lose the vote in those states.
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 Is quadrilateral ABCD a square?Statement #1: angle A = angle C = 90ºStatement #2: AB = AD
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Maintaining that, in adhering to a stream-of-consciousness style, Virginia Woolf was forced to sacrifice unity and cohesion, overlooks how she meticulously planned each page so that every sentence conformed to an ultimate conception she had before even writing the first page.
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Judith and Quincy started with the same amount of money to invest at the beginning of 2012. Judith's investments increased by P percent in the year 2012 and then increased by Q percent in the year 2013. From the start of 2012 to the end of 2013, Quincy's investment increased by R percent. Which one of them had more money by the end of 2013? Statement #1: P + Q < RStatement #2:$$R-P-Q\lt\frac{PQ}{100}$$
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The income categories of Senator Crocker's proposed tax code are as broad as to fail to distinguish the sale of an old chair at a pawnshop from collecting profits in a sophisticated stock option move.
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The political motivation behind the Livonian Crusade was not so much to convert to Christianity the last non-Christian people in Europe, and also for establishing control over the commerce of the entire Baltic region.
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The Engineering Department, one of the newest departments in the University, has more extensive facilities than every department, due to industry's demand for their graduates and their correspondingly higher salaries.
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The success of the first landing on the moon emboldened some scientists to claim that a Mars landing was imminent, vastly underestimating the difficulties entailed in such a feat.
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Major League Baseball policy prohibits use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and no illegal drugs.
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Relying exclusively on radio communication, both to transmit messages it has encoded and to receive messages, the search for extraterrestrial life by SETI, the most heavily funded project of this kind, will likely be stymied if this form of communication does not yield any tangible breakthroughs.
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If N is a positive integer, does N have exactly three distinct positive factors?Statement #1: the integer $$N^2 $$has exactly five distinct factorsStatement #2: only one factor of N is a prime number
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Just as Edward Jenner used the pustules from milkmaids to inoculate against smallpox, effectively removing the specter of death that had hung over the population, the smallpox vaccine today is derived from a live virus, which immunologists have obtained from the pustules of infected organisms.
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The genetic code of hominids accounts not only for all current human diversity but also the differences between modern humans as opposed to earlier hominids, and yet most are identical to the genetic code of chimpanzees.
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Five-star General John Pershing had such a sweeping command in World War I as no single WWII general is a correspondence to him.
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A sitting Speaker of the House, as well as any sitting Senator from west of the Mississippi, has never been elected to the US Presidency, although three sitting eastern Senators have been elected to the office.
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Unlike the name recognition of Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling enjoys no popular renown beyond specialists in his field, despite being the only individual to have won two unaccompanied Nobel Prizes.
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The more cautious commanders of the Army of the Potomac, such as George McClellan and George Meade, chose to withdraw after costly battles, but commander Ulysses Grant's strategy was the keeping up of pressure on Lee's Confederates even after losing a battle to them, and then he occupied positions between Lee's army and Richmond to invite another open battle.
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