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The Fieldpark nuclear power plant, cited three years ago by a governmentally led safety commission for exceeding safe levels of radiation, has recently allowed the media access to its facilities. A spokesperson for the plant has claimed that the media has full access to the plant and is not prohibited from taking pictures on the premises. The spokesperson promises that, as a result, the citizens of Fieldpark can rest assured that, until next year’s governmental inspection, the facility will not exceed the federal regulations on the amount of sieverts, or radiation, to which a person can be exposed. Which of the following is an assumption upon which the spokesperson’s conclusion depends?
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By saying, “they could not have learned these forms by a process of imitation” the author is implying that
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For a long time, the price of a certain console remained the same. Because of new tariffs, the price of this console increased by 50% last week, and stayed at this new level. This week, Amanda purchased the console with a 50%-off coupon. Amanda paid $240. What was the original price, before the last week's price increase?
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Throughout last year, a stylish jacket had a full price of P in a certain store. At the beginning of this year, the price of the jacket rose A% percent to this year's full price. Shortly after the beginning of this year, this store had a sale, and Jessica bought the jacket at B% less than this year's current full price, where B > A. How much did Jessica save, buying the jacket this year on sale, as compared to what she would have spent last year?Statement #1: P = $250Statement #2: B – A = 5
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Walter Mondale had a long difficult struggle leading up to the 1984 Democratic Presidential Primary, though he consolidated his lead for the nomination, but he won only 13 electoral votes in the general election
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The lobbyist accused of offering a large cash bribe to the senator defended himself: "When I left the house that day, I was carrying no money with me, so I could not possibly have had anything to offer to the senator. Moreover, immediately before I met with the senator, I spent all my cash on lunch with a colleague at an upscale restaurant, which also explains why I was not in a position to offer the senator a bribe."This argument is most vulnerable to what criticism?
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The passage implies that the empiricists believe that the way humans go about ordering color is arbitrary because
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If 2x - 3y = 6, then 6y - 4x =
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Is x > y?(1) x - y - 1 > 0(2) x - y + 1 > 0
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The library at the state college could have much less books and still is above the minimum number required by state educational standards.
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Soft Drinks Manufacturer: Despite attractive offers, our company has rejected any plans to expand our market into the Czech Republic at this time. We simply have no data on how well received our products would be in the Czech Republic. Industry Analyst: Your position is inconsistent. Last year, you expanded into Bolivia, even after taste tests had definitely found that approximately 40% of the Bolivian population did not care for any of your products. Therefore, concerns about how well received your product will be cannot be motivating this position.The industry analyst's argument is flawed because it fails to consider that:
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The idea that the order in which humans name colors follows a fixed pattern is most consistent with which of the following?
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Increasing the original price of a certain item by 25 percent and then increasing the new price by 25 percent is equivalent to increasing the original price by what percent?
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At ABC Hardware the total cost of 1 paintbrush and 2 rolls of tape is $6.25. What is the price of one roll of tape?
(1) The price of one paintbrush is three times the price of one roll of tape.(2) The total cost of 6 rolls of tape and 3 paintbrushes is $18.75.
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A prolific writer, Sir Walter Scott's works include the poem The Lady of the Lake and the historical novels Ivanhoe and Waverley.
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In order to combat Carville’s rampant homeless problem, Mayor Bloomfield recently proposed a ban on sleeping outdoors in the city’s many parks. He claims that such a measure will force the homeless to either leave Carville or to find means other than sleeping in public parks. Which of the following, if true, suggests that Mayor Bloomfield’s plan will be successful?
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Which of the following is NOT an assumption that Gall makes regarding the relation between a person’s aptitude and personality traits, and that person’s brain?
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In a certain town in Connecticut, the ratio of NY Yankees fans to NY Mets fans is 3:2, and the ratio of NY Mets fans to Boston Red Sox fans is 4:5. If there are 300 baseball fans in the town, each of whom is a fan of exactly one of those three teams, how many NY Mets fans are there in this town?
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The Townville museum was open for 7 consecutive days. If the number of visitors each day was 3 greater than the previous day, how many visitors were there on the first day?(1) There were a total of 126 visitors for the 7 days.(2) The number of visitors on the seventh day was three times the number of visitors on the first day.
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Marcus Junius Brutus (85 – 42 BCE) became friends with Julius Caesar, but he was one of the conspirators who assassinated Caesar, and in subsequent centuries rose and fell according to the tides of various interpretations — as a treacherous villain in Dante and noble hero in Shakespeare.
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