Eager to hire the financial analyst with such impressive credentials, it was planned by the hiring manager to offer him a large signing bonus.

The two-week hunting trip undertaken by twelve-year-old Inuit boys on North Baffin Island is not necessary to the community’s survival, but they are still considered important rites of passage by the Inuits, who have extended the tradition to include young girls.

The zoo is reviewing a potential exhibit modification to permit diana monkeys to retrieve food from trees instead of being limited to an unnatural metal food trough.

After prototypes of the company’s power supply system caused a number of fires, the design team promised the implementation of stricter testing procedures as those which were originally promised and to enforce continued maintenance of the potentially hazardous piece of equipment.

To imprint their personal signature onto a document, many people in ancient Mesopotamia used cylinder seals, each with its own unique pattern or decoration inscribed on its surface.

The government of Vilaria declared that limitations on the sale of diesel vehicles would continue because no significant improvements to fuel composition occurred in the past year to make the emissions any safer for the environment.

Sounding, which involved dropping weighted lines into the water and noting when the tension disappeared, was one of the several procedures that was an important role to play in early attempting to map the ocean floor.

Signals from a cochlear implant are recognized as sound when the brain receives signals directly from the cochlear implant that generates them by stimulating the auditory nerve, implanted directly into the brain.

Previously, most vehicle manufacturers ignored fuel efficiency in favor of speed and performance. Fuel efficiency was difficult to engineer and manufacturers paid little attention to excessive fuel consumption in developing their designs. This year the most sold vehicle in the United States has been the most fuel efficient one—a certain sign that manufacturers are becoming more concerned with limiting wasteful fuel usage than optimizing a vehicle’s speed.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

If , which of the following statements must decrease as decreases?

  I.

 II.

III.

On the circle above with center , the length of arc is . What is the circumference of the circle?

In the -plane shown, the shaded region consists of all points that lie below the graph of and above the -axis. Does the point (not shown) lie in the shaded region if ?

(1)

(2)

A commuter has a total of 40 tokens this month to ride the bus or the subway. Each bus token cost $3. Each subway token cost $2. How many subway tokens does the commuter have?

(1) The average (arithmetic mean) cost of each token the commuter has is $2.25.

(2) The commuter paid a total of $90 for all tokens this month.

What is the value of ?

(1)

(2)

What is the area of rectangle ?

(1) Each diagonal of  has length .

(2) The perimeter of  is .

A rectangular quilt is shown above. The width of the quilt is feet and the quilt's border has uniform width. What are the dimensions of the quilt?

(1) The area of the border is square feet.

(2) The perimeter of the inner rectangle is feet.

A rectangular rug is a third as long as it is wide. If its area is 45 square feet, then its dimensions in feet are