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A minor league baseball team has for several years pressured its agency to implement an advertising campaign targeted to young supporters who need a superstar to idolize and older fanswho enjoy reminiscing about the beginning days of the sport.
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According to the passage, the rise in tuberculosis cases in the late 1980s occurred for which of the following reasons?
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It can be inferred from the passage that HIV affected monkeys in which of the following ways?
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Because he had not experienced any symptoms until adulthood and was affected by facial paralysis early on in the course of his illness. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose death was originally attributed to complications arising from polio, may actually have suffered from symptoms related to Guillain-Barre syndrome.
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Reporting that one of their more crippling malfunctions has been the sudden and unexpected failure of the liquid helium cooling system, the engineering squad supervising the Large Hadron Collider requested additional funding to develop better maintenance systems.
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Citing the fact that one oftheir more challenging hurdles has been the recent unexpected failure of the gene therapy treatment, the cancer therapy research team applied for additional government funding to further research the treatment.
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It is possible that the Roma people have migrated from India across Europe over the course of several centuries that were characterized by this type of nomadic wandering.
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Although some consultants insist that agencies should offer all-inclusive fixed-agenda packages to overseas travelers, others advise that travelers will plan a trip only if time would be set aside for separately spontaneous excursions.
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Using armored vehicles to detonate buried land mines entails an unavoidable risk of injury or fatality, but disarming and removing land mines manually currently entails an even greater such risk to those who remove land mines per mine removed. Therefore, in order to reduce the risk of injury or fatality without decelerating the effort to remove buried land mines, we must increase the use of armored vehicles and disarm fewer land mines by hand.Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument above?
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The proposal to hire twelve new fraud investigators in Greenvale is foolish. This is because there is sufficient funding to pay the salaries of the new investigators, but not to pay the salaries of additional prosecutors and administrative assistants to process the increased load of fraud cases that new investigators usually generate.Which of the following, if true, will most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
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A new law regarding written work gives the ownership of a magazine article's copyright - the exclusive right to reproduce and sell a creative or intellectual work - to the journalist who wrote the article rather than to the magazine company for which that journalist works. In addition to licensing the rights he receives to the magazine company for which he works, a journalist plans to take advantage of this new law by also licensing the rights to his articles to textbook companies, allowing these companies to reproduce and sell his articles, in order to maximize his profits.Which of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the likelihood that the journalist's plan will succeed?
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During periods when a large number of patients are admitted to a hospital, more qualified nurses are hired and more money is spent on nurse training than when the number of patients in a hospital is low. Thus, the average number of mistakes made by nurses should be lower during periods when there is a large number of patients in a hospital than when there is a small number of patients in a hospital and less money is available to hire qualified nurses and provide training to all nurses.Which of the following, if true about a hospital during a period in which a large number of patients are admitted, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?
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The recently announced dissolution of the Freedom Party, a major national political party, will not benefit the one other major national political party, the Liberty Party. It will, however, help third parties, including the Workers Party, who will now take more votes away from the Liberty Party in the upcoming national presidential race than would have been taken by the Freedom Party, had it not been dissolved.Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
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Top Line Technologies and Eureka Industries distribute the same kind of rechargeable batteries to national electronic store chains. Employee wages comprise 38 percent of each company's total annual costs. In order to gain a competitive advantage over Eureka Industries, Top Line Technologies has proposed slashing employee wages by 10 percent.Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument above?
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A certain city offers publicly owned, desirable billboard-advertising space at heavily discounted monthly rates to locally owned businesses. Since the implementation of this policy, the city has increased the amount of billboard space sold per month. Nevertheless, the city could increase its revenues by revoking these discounts.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim above regarding the city's revenues?
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What is the value of integer n ?1. $${n}={n}{A}$$2.$${1}^{n}\neq{n}$$
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If $$\frac{4x}{7}{y}={1}$$, then what is the value of 3x + 5y ?1. x + 4y = 232. $${y}^{3}={64}$$
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A think-tank in Michigan has announced a controversial new finding. It concludes that efforts to combat high emissions from cars by taxing gasoline and SUVs are misplaced; rather, governments should be providing consumers with tax incentives to purchase large cars and carpooling with their neighbors to work. They estimate that such a plan would reduce national gas emissions by 23% over the next decade.Which of the following, if true, casts the greatest doubt on the likely effectiveness of this recommendation?
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It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would provide the LEAST support for the idea that surface sediment is responsible for increased concentrations of iron in the Arctic Ocean?
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$${(R^{c})(R^{d})(R^{e})}=R^{-12}$$, if R>0 and c, d, and e are each different negative integers, what is the smallest that c could be?
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