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Marketing executive for Magu Corporation: Whenever Magu opens a manufacturing facility in a new city, the company should sponsor, or make donations to, a number of nonprofit organizations in that city. Doing so would improve Magu's image in the community, and thus the money spent on such charitable ventures would lead to increased sales.
Which statement would, if true, point to the most serious weakness in the marketing executive's advice?
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Historian: Fifteenth-century advances in mapmaking contributed to the rise of modern nation-states. In medieval Europe (from the fifth to the fifteenth century), sovereignty centered in cities and towns and radiated outward, with boundaries often ambiguously defined. The conceptual shift toward the modern state began in the late fifteenth century, when mapmakers learned to reflect geography accurately by basing maps on latitude-longitude grids. By the midseventeenth century, nearly all maps showed boundary lines.
Which of the following would, if true, most strengthen the historian's reasoning?
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Farmer: Several people in the past few years have claimed to have seen a mountain lion in the suburban outskirts—the latest just last month—and, while mountain lions were thought to have been driven from this entire region about twenty years ago, there is no reason for the people who reported seeing a
mountain lion to have deliberately concocted a false report. Therefore, local wildlife managers should begin to urgently address the mountain lion's presence.
Which of the following would, if true, most seriously weaken the farmer's argument?
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Certain groups of Asian snails include both “left-handed” and “right-handed” species, with shells coiling to the left and right, respectively. Some left-handed species have evolved from right-handed ones. Also, researchers found that snaileating snakes in the same habitat have asymmetrical jaws, allowing them to grasp right-handed snail shells more easily. If these snakes ate more right-handed snails over time, this would have given left-handed snails an evolutionary advantage over right-handed snails, with the left handed snails eventually becoming a new species. Thus, the snakes' asymmetrical jaws probably helped drive the emergence of the left-handed snail species.
Which of the following would, if true, most strengthen the argument that asymmetrical snake jaws helped drive left-handed snail evolution?
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Regulators are likely to end what are, in effect, long-standing
exemptions permitting pilots of small turboprop aircraft at small carriers to
fly as much as 20 percent more hours per month than pilots at larger airlines
fly, with the consequence that some carriers could be forced to hire additional
pilots.
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Self-compassion is made up of mindfulness, the ability to manage
thoughts and emotions without being carried away or repressing them,
common humanity, or empathy with the suffering of others, and self-kindness, a
recognition of your own suffering and a commitment to solving the problem.
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According to the laws of this nation, individuals are minors until they reach
the age of eighteen, although this is less in some countries and more in others.
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Many stock traders in the United States have set out to become global
investors, convinced that limiting their investments to the U.S. stock
market, even though it is certainly home to the stocks of some of the world's
great corporations, restricted their gains.
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Although some had accused Smith, the firm's network manager, of
negligence when the crucial data went missing, the CEO defused a
situation that was quite tense with her public statement that the debacle
was not Smith's fault.
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Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expected,most analysts agreed that the index was unlikely to continue going up and that inflation remained essentially under control.
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The 9 squares above are to be filled with x 's and o 's, with only one symbol in each square. How many of the squares will contain an x ?
1.More than $$\frac{1}{2}$$ of the number of squares will contain an o.
2.Each of the 4 corner squares will contain an x.
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If m and n are integers, what is the value of m + n ?
1.$$(x + m)(x + n) = x^{2} + 5x + mn\ and\ x ≠ 0.$$
2.$$mn = 4$$
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If r and s are positive integers, is r + s even?
1.r is even.
2.s is even.
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7, 9, 6, 4, 5, x
If x is a number in the list above, what is the median of the list?
1.x > 7
2.The median of the list equals the arithmetic mean of the list.
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If x and y are the lengths of the legs of a right triangle, what is the value of xy ?
1.The hypotenuse of the triangle is $$10\sqrt{2}$$
2.The area of the triangular region is 50.
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If the 1st term of a sequence is 0 and the 2nd term is 1, is the 5th term 2 ?
1.Each odd-numbered term is either 0 or 2.
2.The 3rd term is 2.
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Jones has worked at Firm X twice as many years as Green, and Green has worked at Firm X four years longer than Smith. How many years has Green worked at Firm X ?
1.Jones has worked at Firm X 9 years longer than Smith.
2.Green has worked at Firm X 5 years less than Jones.
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If, in the figure above, ABCD is a rectangular region, what is the value of the ratio $$\frac{area of Δ EDA}{area of Δ EBC}$$ ?
1.AD = 4
2.AE = 2 and EB = 4
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A certain painting job requires a mixture of yellow, green, and white paint. If 12 quarts of paint are needed for the job, how many quarts of green paint are needed?
1.The ratio of the amount of green paint to the amount of yellow and white paint combined needs to be 1 to 3.
2.The ratio of the amount of yellow paint to the amount of green paint needs to be 3 to 2.
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In any sequence of n nonzero numbers, a pair of consecutive terms with opposite signs represents a sign change. For example, the sequence –2, 3, –4, 5 has three sign changes. Does the sequence of nonzero numbers $$s_1$$, $$s_2$$, $$s_3$$, - , $$s_n$$ have an even number of sign changes?
1.$$s_k= (-1)^{k}$$ for all positive integers k from 1 to n.
2.n is odd.
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