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According to the passage, one primary contrast between the Indonesian herd and the Vietnamese herd is that
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Which of the following statements can be most reasonably inferred from the passage?
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Less than 10 percent of the world's people, and of the participants in combat sports worldwide, are left-handed. However, a majority of top-level competitors in combat sports worldwide are left-handed. Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the discrepancy presented in the passage?
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The fall of the Berlin Wall represented a political victory of the free market against a centrally planned economy. Though highly interventionist and dependent on international defense and industrial subsidy, West Germany was a model of economic expansion in the post-war era. East Germany, while relatively successful in comparison with other Eastern Bloc nations, was far behind West Germany with regard to the buying power of its people. It was hard to avoid obvious comparisons such as the fact that 1 in 4 East Germans did not even have an indoor toilet. Western German authorities were therefore committed to rapid integration of the two Germanys without resorting to massive controls on internal migration, external capital controls, or continuation of a large state-owned industrial sector.
Other nations were already wary of a united Germany. France, a perpetual competitor, saw Germany's size advantage increase overnight. In Gross Domestic Product ("GDP") alone, an historical size advantage of 23% jumped to nearly 30%, with stronger growth promised when East Germany was fully integrated. Within Germany, there should have been no doubt that integration would be costly. The question was whether the government was up to the task. In Italy, for example, the central government has invested tremendous resources in promoting the economy of its under-performing Southern region. In contrast, in the United States, the local population bears the burden of varying economic performance. For example, the American South is allowed to exist with much higher rates of poverty and lower education than the rest of the nation. Rather than allow East Germany to fall into total disrepair, with millions fleeing to the West and a long-term negative impact on national GDP growth, West German authorities decided to try to spend their way out of the crisis, creating almost overnight an infrastructure in East Germany to provide a standard of living comparable to that in West Germany. The goal was to take an under-performing country and raise it to “first world” standards in only a few years. This goal would have been preposterous had not West Germany possessed the resources to accomplish the task.
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[line:7:title]According to the author, which of the following is the principal reason that German reunification could succeed?
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Though most paper currency was at one time backed by fixed assets such as gold or silver, it now derives its purchasing power from a declaratory fiat of the issuing government.
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Manhattan
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Scientists have determined that an effective way to lower cholesterol is to eat three servings of whole grains every day. Studies have shown that the cholesterol levels of people who did so were significantly lower after six months than were those of people who did not, even though the cholesterol levels of the two groups had been the same before the studies began. Clearly, eating whole grains can have an appreciable effect on cholesterol levels. The answer to which of the following questions, if true, would be most useful in evaluating the claim about whole grains above?
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The ability to analyze genomes — sequences of DNA — has grown more and more sophisticated. Scientists are able to examine the biological past in finer detail and with greater accuracy. A new analysis of the genetic links between early humans and chimpanzees has led to a hypothesis that the two species diverged more recently than previous estimates indicated. This gives credence to a very startling new theory: the ancestors of humans and chimpanzees might have hybridized to produce the lineage from which modern humans eventually developed.What can be inferred from the statements above?
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Life in an urban center, with daily experiences of subways, crowded sidewalks and dense living, provides countless opportunities for social contact and connection. Exurban life, by contrast, exists in the openness of freeways and one-acre lots, exhibiting little that would suggest social commonality. Yet studies show that people who live in exurbia consistently rate their feeling of connectedness to their community as strong whereas urban dwellers more frequently express feelings of isolation.Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the difference in the reported feelings of connectedness between urban and exurban dwellers?
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During the summer of 1778, seeking to find alternative explanations for the process of evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck repeated his initial experiment on mollusks once in every 4 weeks but received exactly the same results 3 times in a row.
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At the beginning of January 2003, Elizabeth invested money in an account that collected interest, compounding more frequently than a year. Assume the annual percentage rate of interest remained constant. What is the total amount she has invested after seven years?Statement #1: her initial investment was $20,000Statement #2: the account accrued 7% annual interest
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Maggie is 15 years older than Bobby. How old is Bobby?Statement #1: In 3 years, Maggie's age will be 50% larger than Bobby's age.Statement #2: Years ago, when Maggie was 25 years old, Bobby was 10 years old.
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Suppose n children are going to sit, in any order, on a row of n chairs. What is the value of n?Statement #1: If one child leaves, and one chair is removed from the row, there would be 4320 fewer arrangements of the remaining children.Statement #2: In this row, there are 5040 possible arrangements of the n children.
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If x and y are different positive integers, what is the value of x?(1) x + y = 5(2) xy = 6
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What is the value of x - y?(1) x + y = 12(2) x^{2} + x = 12
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Bill took 4 math tests, and each test received a score out of 100. What was Bill's average (arithmetic mean) score for all 4 tests?(1) Bill's first 3 tests received an average score of 50.(2) Bill's last 2 tests received an average score of 50.
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Magoosh
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Is x > y?(1) x - y - 1 > 0(2) x - y + 1 > 0
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On a fishing excursion, Jeannie keeps$$\frac{ 1}{4}$$ of the fish she catches and releases the remainder of the fish back into the lake. If $$\frac{2}{3}$$ of the fish she keeps are trout, and 1/3 of the fish she releases are trout, what proportion of the total number of fish she catches are trout?
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If$$ xy \neq 0$$, what is the ratio of y to x?(1) y = 3x(2) x = 11
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The United States Navy announced that, beginning next year, they plan to close several of their bases in order to reduce operating expenses.
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