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Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation's officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold.The facts above best support which of the following predictions?
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OG12 OG15 PREP07 Test 2
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Northern Air has dozens of flights daily into and out of Belleville Airport, which is highly congested. NorthernAir depends for its success on economy and quick turnaround and consequently is planning to replace its largeplanes with Skybuses, whose novel aerodynamic design is extremely fuel efficient. The Skybus' fuel efficiency results in both lower fuel costs and reduced time spent refueling.Which of the following, if true, could present the most serious disadvantage for Northern Air in replacing their large planes with Skybuses?
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PREP07 Test 1
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In countries in which new life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, such drugs are sold at widely affordable prices; those same drugs, where patented, command premium prices because the patents shield patent-holding manufacturers from competitors. These facts show that future access to new life-sustaining drugs can be improved if the practice of granting patents on newly developed life-sustaining drugs were to be abolished everywhere.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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Near Chicago a newly built hydroponic spinach "factuory," a completely controlled environment for growing spinach, produces on 1 acre of floor space what it takes 100 acres of fields to produce. Expenses, especially for electricity, are high ,however, and the spinach produced costs about four times as much as washed California field spinach, the spinach commonly sold throughout the United States.Which of the following, if true, best supports a projection that the spinach-growing facility near Chicago will be profitable?
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PREP2012
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Manufacturers of mechanical pencils make most of their profit on pencil leads rather than on the pencils themselves. The Write Company, which cannot sell its leads as cheaply as other manufacturers can, plans to alter the design of its mechanical pencil so that it will accept only a newly designed Write Company lead, which will be sold at the same price as the Write Company's current lead.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the Write Company's projection that its plan will lead to an increase in its sales of pencil lead?
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A factory was trying out a new process for producing one of its products, with the goal of reducing productioncosts. A trial production run using the new process showed a 15 percent reduction in costs compared with pastperformance using the standard process. The production managers therefore concluded that the new processdid produce a cost savings.Which of the following, if true, casts most doubt on the production manager's conclusion?
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OG12
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According to the passage, if the researchers had NOT found that two extinct carnivore species were free of tooth breakage, the researchers would have concluded that
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OG12 OG15
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Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a disadvantage of storing artifacts in museum basements?
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OG12
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The passage is primarily concerned with which of the following?
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OG12
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According to the passage, today's successful firms, unlike successful firms in the past, may earn the greatest profits by
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 PREP07 Test 1 OG18 PREP08 Test 2
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The passage provides information in support of which of the following assertions?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 PREP07 Test 1 OG18 PREP08 Test 2
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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following is true of species of terrestrial snakes that often need to assume a vertical posture?
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 OG18
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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following is a true statement about sea snakes?
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OG12
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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The author of the passage mentions which of the following as one disadvantage of the United States government's definition of services?
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OG12 OG15 OG16
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[line:23:enable]The author refers to "service workers employed by manufacturers" (highlight text) primarily in order to point out
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OG12
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The "dilemma" mentioned in highlight text can best be characterized as being caused by the necessity to make a choice when faced with a
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OG12
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The passage implies that which of the following was true of introductory courses in Asian American studies a few decades ago?
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OG12 OG15
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The passage suggests that combing and carding differ from weaving in that combing and carding were
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