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Company X manufactures swim wear and planned to launch a new line of women's bathing suits in March, which is typically the peak time of year for swim wear sales. The company conducted consumer polls, which returned favorable results for both style and price, and took out advertisements in major fashion magazines and television stations. Yet the launch was disappointing: sales in March did not exceed even half of the company's sales during the same period in the previous year. Each of the following, if true, could explain the disappointing sales of the new swim wear line EXCEPT:
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Spectroscopic analysis has revealed the existence of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide on the surface of Pluto. Such ices have a tendency to vaporize, producing an atmosphere. Since the proportion of any gas in such an atmosphere depends directly on how readily the corresponding ice vaporizes, astronomers have concluded that the components of Pluto's atmosphere are nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, in order of decreasing abundance.The astronomers' argument relies on which one of the following assumptions?
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What is the 18th digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal expansion of$$\frac{1}{37}$$ ?
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Two different primes may be said to "rhyme" around an integer if they are the same distance from the integer on the number line. For instance, 3 and 7 rhyme around 5. What integer between 1 and 20, inclusive, has the greatest number of distinct rhyming primes around it?
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A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle, such that the two figures touch at exactly 3 points, one on each side of the triangle. Which of the following is closest to the percent of the area of the triangle that lies within the circle?
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If$$ab\neq0$$ and$$a\neq3b$$ , what is the value of$${4a+6b}\over{a+3b}$$(1)a-3b = 6(2)$$2{{a}\over{a+3b}}=4$$
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For which of the following functions f(x) is the relation f(f(x)) = f(f(f(f(x)))) NOT true for at least some values of x not equal to zero?
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A geometric sequence is one in which the ratio of any term after the first to the preceding term is a constant. If the letters a, b, c, d represent a geometric sequence in normal alphabetical order, which of the following must also represent a geometric sequence for all values of k?I. dk,ck,bk,akII.a+k,b+2k,c+3k,d+4kIII.$$ak^{4},bk^{3},ck^{2},dk$$
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The harmonic mean of two numbers x and y, symbolized as h(x, y), is defined as 2 divided by the sum of the reciprocals of x and y, whereas the geometric mean g(x, y) is defined as the square root of the product of x and y (when this square root exists), and the arithmetic mean m(x, y) is defined as$${x+y}\over{2}$$ For which of the following pairs of values for x and y is g(x, y) equal to the arithmetic mean of h(x,y)and m(x, y)?
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Trying to mimic some of the pitch variations of a dolphin chattering is the same as attempting to sing like a sick parakeet when one is intoxicated: the complete lack of harmony and apparent randomness of the noise means the human vocal chords are completely incapable of reproducing these sounds.
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The catastrophic San Francisco Earthquake at the turn of the century destroyed numerous buildings and many were led to believe that the city had becomea permanent disaster zone.
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Rallies organized in conjunction with the dissemination of democratic principles which was once prohibited by Communist Chinese leaders, are beginning to take shape at a grass roots level permitted by the new Chinese leadership.
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Historians and philosophers in the late nineteenth century both argued that Plato's work was perhaps the ultimate work of political philosophy, that it was the one paradigm of political discourse that there was no possibility to supersede.
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After the attack on the World Trade Center, the President ordered intelligence agencies should prepare lists of who were America's most wanted terrorists.
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In an effort to shorten the time span and cut the costs needed to grow full size beef stock, many ranchers substitute cornmeal and ground bones for their cattle's regular diet, branded by them to become generic-grade beef.
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In the most bizarre court case this month, the judge ruled that two ping-pong ball manufacturers owed restitution to four national ping-pong teams for the illegal weighting of the ping-pong balls in an effort to fix the tournament.
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The electronics manufacturer announced that while earnings grew by 5% in the last quarter, revenue decreased whereas it might have been expected for it to rise.
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The Chinese army consists of several million young men, about equivalent to the enrollment of colleges in India.
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Statisticians from the Department of Motor Vehicles have calculated that one human being should be struck every three minutes by a vehicle, while each minute two animals can be expected to die from such collisions.
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$$\sqrt{75}+\sqrt{75}=$$
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