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If $$x^{a - b} = 1$$, what is the value of x ?(1) $$a \neq b$$(2) x > 0
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In elucidating and ultimately decrying the various strains of nihilism endemic to his native Russia, the novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky sought to edify the populace, to lead it away from the evil portended in a philosophy that denied all values.
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She explained she both wants a large house in the city, so that she can make visits the museums regularly, and also a cottage in the mountains, to which she can go on free weekends.
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If CD = 6, what is the length of BC?(1) $$BD=6\sqrt{3}$$(2) x = 60
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Because the People's Republic of China claims Taiwan as part of its "One China" territory and refuses to have diplomatic relations with any nation that recognizes Taiwan as an independent nation, most western nations do not have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, though most unofficially consider that Taiwan is an independent state.
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Although offering a dynamic range simply absent on the harpsichord, the original fortepiano, invented in the early eighteenth century—indeed the name comes from the Italian forte ("loud") and piano ("soft")—the fortepiano would now sound dynamically limited compared to our modern grand pianos.
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 In the diagram above, what is the measure of angle y?Statement #1: x = 30°Statement #2: line AB is parallel to line CD
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If $$wxy \neq 0$$, does x = y ?(1) $$w^x = w^y$$(2) $$wxy \neq xy$$
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According to Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion, as a planet moves through its elliptical orbit, it changes its orbital speed as its distance from the Sun changes: in particular, the closer the planet is to the Sun, then it is moving its orbit that much faster.
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What is the value of y?Statement #1:$$3y-1= \sqrt{8y^2-4y+9}$$Statement #2: $$y^2 – 2y – 8 = 0 $$
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Of all the things that Washington could have done in conducting the American Revolution, nevertheless the war against the British would not have succeeded without French intervention.
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Those who fault the intrusion of amateurs into areas requiring serious scholarship often cite Heinrich Schliemann, who was a wealthy German businessman with an obsession for antiquity and who unwittingly destroyed the very artifacts he had been hoping to unearth, when he deployed fifteen sticks of dynamite in the substratum containing relics of ancient Troy and who yet inspired legions of similarly inexperienced men to enter the field.
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Benford's Law, stating that certain numbers appear more often in measurements than do others, is so counterintuitive that when used as evidence in trials where financial fraud is concerned, the evidence is often considered to be a desperate ploy on the part of the prosecution, even if the numbers strongly point to malfeasance.
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The many extant fossils yet to be attributed to a species suggest that our classification of extinct species is either deficient, with many unclassified species meriting distinct branches on the taxonomic tree, or that our method of identification is lacking, with many fossils indeed attributable to known extinct species.
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Maxwell's theory of Electromagnetism in 1873 was the first "unified field theory," with Electroweak in 1961 only being the other, because no further theory has united the electroweak field with either the Strong (Hadronic) force or Gravity.
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Micheaux contends that the guild system both limited and encouraged experimentation in Renaissance Italy: artisans who would have otherwise had no support were allowed to develop their craft, yet, once under such a system, were discouraged from challenging the existing power dynamics.
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The impact of a large meteor nearly 65 million years ago can better account for the series of cataclysmic events attending the extinction of the dinosaurs than can the concomitant changes in the Earth's climate alone, based on the fact that the meteorite can best explain the sudden appearance of high concentrations of the element iridium, which is found in meteors and, in and of itself, in no way related to changes in the terrestrial climate.
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The CEO of Laminar Flow gave his R & D team a new $300 million dollar research facility, with cutting-edge technology, that they can do research potentially revolutionary innovations in.
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Comparing tensile strength, spider's silk is much better at holding its own weight than high-grade alloy steel, considerably lighter because the organic composition is less dense than the metallic elements.
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In unveiling vast swaths of areas of which they previously had faintly any notion of their existence, much like modern day astronomers, ancient cartographers expanding our awareness of the world we inhabit and providing a basis so that we might reach even further into the unknown.
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