In the Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress, researchers claim that new regulations requiring that any movie depicting smoking receives an adult rating drives rates down further.

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.

Many people believe that such activities as owning a pet, taking care of another's pet, or babysitting an infant not only confer the capacity of friendship on a child but also develop role-taking skills, since that child must put him- or herself in the pet or infant's situation and imagine how that pet or infant feels.

In 1646, William Stafford published The Reason of the War, with the Progress and Accidents Thereof, Written by an English Subject, arguing in a pamphlet that Charles I give more power to Parliament and for peace on the basis of constitutional monarchy.

Personal fitness, despite facing an ongoing innovation challenge, ranks as one of the most profitable industries in a recent study, surpassed only by internet and network services.

Because surveys revealed that the airline merger had confused public perceptions of the two brands, executives at the acquiring company announced that it would rename the regional carrier it had acquired.

First-year sales of the film Bridge on the River Kwai obtained in 1957, and estimated to be 27 million dollars, made it the largest-grossing movie of the year.

With broad, flat bodies and small heads, the cockroach's durability is to the insect world what the honey badger is to the mustelids.

The number of gray whales spotted migrating south off the Southern California coast was 364 in December, prompting uncertainty as to whether the population of the endangered species actually doubled that of the 20,000 estimate of the previous year.

If is the average (arithmetic mean) of the first 8 positive multiples of 6 greater than 6, and if  is the median of the first 8 positive multiples of 6 greater than 6, what is the value of$$ ?

The value of an investment increased by 10 percent during the first year, increased by 5 percent during the second year, and decreased by 10 percent during the third year. What percent of the original value is the current value of the investment?

In a water tank, $\frac{3}{4}$ of the volume is occupied by water and the remainder of the volume is occupied by air. If a contaminant occupies $\frac{1}{3}$ of the water, by volume, and 20 percent of the air, what percent of the volume of the water tank is contaminated?

Pat bought both carrots and onions from a store. If each carrot cost $1.10, each onion cost $0.50, and the purchase of carrots and onions totaled $11.00, what total number of carrots and onions did Pat buy?

During a certain season, a team won 80 percent of its first 80 games and 56 percent of its remaining games. If the team won $\frac{2}{3}$ of its games in the entire season, what was the total number of games that the team played?

How many distinct prime numbers between 1 and 30 are factors of 3,366?

A particular class was given a quiz consisting of two questions, which were marked either correct or incorrect. Of the 150 students, 100 got the first question correct and 120 got the second question correct. If at least 10 students got neither question correct, then the number of students who got both questions correct could be any number from

If there are 6 more girls than boys in a room, and there are 14 boys and girls in the room, how many are girls?

If $n$ is a prime number greater than 3, what is the remainder when $n^2$ is divided by 6?

A legal service bills p dollars for the first hour of service on a task and q dollars for each additional hour, where $p>q$. If the client requires a specific number of hours h of service, how does the amount billed to the client change if the work is broken up into n tasks rather than one task?

A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean m. If 95 percent of the distribution lies within two times the standard deviation, d, away from the mean, then what percent of the distribution is greater than $m+2d$?