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Manufacturers of staplers make the majority of their profit on staples rather than on the staplers themselves. The Office Supply Company, which cannot sell its staples as cheaply as other manufacturers can, plans to alter the design of its stapler so that it will only accept a newly designed Office Supply Company staple, which will be sold at the same price as the Office Supply Company's current staple.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the Office Supply Company's projection that its plan will lead to an increase in its sales of staples?
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The editor of a local newspaper found that his paper's readership was declining because most articles did not address issues that directly impact readers' lives. To increase readership, the editor decided to print more articles about issues facing the local public school system and contentious school board budget meetings.Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason to expect that articles focusing on local public schools and the school board budget will succeed in attracting readers?
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The survey showed that children are much more psychologically stable when raised in a family with two parents than in a family where one parent only cares for the child.
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The CEO has proposed a new policy requiring that employees should retain all pensions indefinitely or be allowed to cash them in at retirement.
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Recently discovered gravitational lensing around certain proximate stars strongly suggests that the nine planets of our solar system are a common phenomenon in the universe rather than developing incidentally from a unique galactic phenomenon several billion years ago.
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Most MBA programs now mandate that potential applicants be finished with an undergraduate degree before applying.
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Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.
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As the journalist left to interview the convicted murderer, she was advised of the man's short temper, told she should not anger him, and was given a tape recorder.
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The average individual's cost of going into space is estimated at a fraction of the price per economy ticket of transatlantic airplane travel by the end of the 21st century.
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Unlike that of the colonies of Portugal, France, and Germany, those of England are still affected by the former imperial power in modern days.
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America's nuclear arsenal has expanded, but China's and Pakistan's too.
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Seven out of ten households in the United States own two or more televisions.
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The UN arms inspectors are reviewing Iraq's arsenal of weapons for the determination of whether they are meeting the requirements set by the Security Council.
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George Brown lost more than 180 pounds since having an operation truncating his stomach three years ago.
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Bio-chemists at Perck Pharma Corporation have discovered a new type of allergy. Their research confirms that it is not just caused by pollen of a certain flower, as it was thought. In addition, the flower has to be pollinated by a certain kind of bee to cause the allergy.Which of the following would most likely support the data's implication?
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Investing in fishing-boats could be very profitable at this time. A survey made by "Hook, Line and Sinker" magazine shows that 75 percent of the magazine's readers want to buy a new fishing-boat during the summer. However, fishing-boat manufacturers can only produce enough boats to satisfy 30% of total potential buyers.Which of the following, if true, would undermine the soundness of the investment advice in the paragraph above?
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According to a recent report on higher education in the United States, the fifteen universities with the highest annual tuition fees also gave out the largest financial aid awards to incoming students with outstanding achievements. Because of a belief in equal opportunity, these universities are able to redistribute resources from those who can give them to those who deserve them by virtue of merits.Which of the following can be correctly inferred from the statement above?
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Southern Haul Cargo Railway owns all of the railroad tracks in the city of Woe-be-gone, Idaho. Because of Woe-be-gone's sudden population explosion, Southern Haul Cargo is planning to make a Metropolitan Rail and Subway system using its pre-existing tracks. The city council has concluded, however, that if the cargo railway were to offer subway transport, the transport system would have an unfair advantage over the city's existing bus routes, because Southern Haul Cargo's subway system could be subsidized by the profits of their monopoly on cargo transport.Which of the following, if true, would ease the city's fear of unfair competition?
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Southern Haul Cargo Railway owns all of the railroad tracks in the city of Woe-be-gone, Idaho. Because of Woe-be-gone's sudden population explosion, Southern Haul Cargo is planning to make a Metropolitan Rail and Subway system using its pre-existing tracks. The city council has concluded, however, that if the cargo railway were to offer subway transport, the transport system would have an unfair advantage over the city's existing bus routes, because Southern Haul Cargo's subway system could be subsidized by the profits of their monopoly on cargo transport.Based on the information given above, which of the following questions can be answered?
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Automobile manufacturers defend their substitution of steel frames in cars with cheaper plastic components by claiming that consumer demand is ruled by a desire for light cars with crumple zones rather than as a result of corporate profit motives. However, if this trend were true, then carbon reinforced tubing, which is lighter than steel and stronger, would be available as an option. It is not.Which of the following, if true, best explains how the automobile manufacturers" claim about consumer desire for lighter and stronger materials could be true and maintain the exclusion of carbon tubing from the market?
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