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A rainstorm increased the amount of water stored in State J reservoirs from 124 billion gallons to 138 billion gallons. If the storm increased the amount of water in the reservoirs to 82 percent of total capacity, approximately how many billion gallons of water were the reservoirs short of total capacity prior to the storm?
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According to the passage, if the researchers had NOT found that two extinct carnivore species were free of tooth breakage, the researchers would have concluded that
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On the graph above, when $$x=\frac{1}{2}$$, y=2; and when x = 1, y = 1. The graph is symmetric with respect to the vertical line at x = 2. According to the graph, when x = 3, y =
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If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last month, how much did Pat earn last month?(1)Pat spent $$\frac{1}{2}$$ of his earnings last month for living expenses and saved $$\frac{1}{3}$$ of the remainder.(2)Of his earnings last month, Pat paid twice as much in taxes as he saved.
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In order to reduce the number of items damaged while in transit to customers, packaging consultants recommended that the TrueSave mail-order company increase the amount of packing material so as to fill any empty spaces in its cartons. Accordingly, TrueSave officials instructed the company's packers to use more packing material than before, and the packers zealously acted on these instructions and used as much as they could. Nevertheless, customer reports of damaged items rose somewhat.Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why acting on the consultants' recommendation failed to achieve its goal?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to propose
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Like the idolization accorded the Brontes and Brownings, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.
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Water is pumped into a partially filled tank at a constant rate through an inlet pipe. At the same time, water is pumped out of the tank at a constant rate through an outlet pipe. At what rate, in gallons per minute, is the amount of water in the tank increasing?(1)The amount of water initially in the tank is 200 gallons.(2)Water is pumped into the tank at a rate of 10 gallons per minute and out of the tank at a rate of 10 gallons every $${2}\frac1 2$$ minutes.
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Cable-television spokesperson: Subscriptions to cable television are a bargain in comparison to "free" television. Remember that "free" television is not really free. It is consumers, in the end, who pay for the costly advertising that supports "free" television.Which of the following, if true, is most damaging to the position of the cable-television spokesperson?
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When $$\frac{1}{10}$$ percent of 5,000 is subtracted from $$\frac{1}{10}$$ of 5,000, the difference is
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Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network which kept the brain from getting too hot.
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The author implies that all of the following statements about duplicate artifacts are true EXCEPT:
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Wood smoke contains dangerous toxins that cause changes in human cells. Because wood smoke presents such a high health risk, legislation is needed to regulate the use of open-air fires and wood-burning stoves.Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the argument above?
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There are several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been the forming of bricks out of mud or clay, and, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, they are laid in the wall in mud mortar.
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Is x a negative number?(1)9x >10x(2)x + 3 is positive.
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Which of the following is the value of $$\sqrt{\sqrt[3]{0.000064}}$$?
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Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a disadvantage of storing artifacts in museum basements?
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Raffle tickets numbered consecutively from 101 through 350 are placed in a box. What is the probability that a ticket selected at random will have a number with a hundreds digit of 2 ?
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Rising inventories, when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.
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A certain automaker aims to increase its market share by deeply discounting its vehicles' prices for the next several months. The discounts will cut into profits, but because they will be heavily advertised the manufacturer hopes that they will attract buyers away from rival manufacturers' cars. In the longer term, the automaker envisions that customers initially attracted by the discounts may become loyal customers.In assessing the plan's chances of achieving its aim, it would be most useful to know which of the following?
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