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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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A garden store purchased a number of shovels and a number of rakes. If the cost of each shovel was $14 and the cost of each rake was $9, what was the total cost of the shovels and rakes purchased by the store?(1) The ratio of the number of shovels to the number of rakes purchased by the store was 2 to 3.(2) The total number of shovels and rakes purchased by the store was 50.
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A grocery store purchased crates of 40 oranges each for $5.00 per crate and then sold each orange for $0.20. What was the store's gross profit on each crate of oranges?
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To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.
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Although fullerenes--spherical molecules made entirely of carbon--were first found in the laboratory, they have since been found in nature, formed in fissures of the rare mineral shungite. Since laboratory synthesis of fullerenes requires distinctive conditions of temperature and pressure, this discovery should give geologists a test case for evaluating hypotheses about the state of the Earth's crust at the time these naturally occurring fullerenes were formed.Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?
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Each of the following aspects of nineteenth-century United States censuses is mentioned in the passage EXCEPT the
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The product P of two prime numbers is between 9 and 55. If one of the prime numbers is greater than 2 but less than 6 and the other is greater than 13 but less than 25, then P =
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Of the students who eat in a certain cafeteria, each student either likes or dislikes lima beans and each student either likes or dislikes brussels sprouts. Of these students, 2/3 dislike lima beans; and of those who dislike lima beans, 3/5 also dislike brussels sprouts. How many of the students like brussels sprouts but dislike lima beans?(1) 120 students eat in the cafeteria(2) 40 of the students like lima beans.
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Organized in 1966 by the Fish and Wildlife Service,the Breeding Bird Survey uses annual roadside counts along established routes for monitoring of population changes of as many as, or of more than 250 bird species, including 180 songbirds.
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Economist: On average, the emergency treatment for an elderly person for injuries resulting from a fall costs $11,000. A new therapeutic program can significantly reduce an elderly person's chances of falling. Though obviously desirable for many reasons, this treatment program will cost $12,500 and thus cannot be justified.Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion of the argument?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "women`s advocates and women statisticians" mentioned in highlight text?
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A certain taxi company charges $3.10 for the first $$\frac{1}{5}$$ of a mile plus $0.40 for each additional $$\frac{1}{5}$$ of a mile. What would this company charge for a taxi ride that was 8 miles long?
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How many different prime numbers are factors of the positive integer n ?(1) Four different prime numbers are factors of 2n.(2) Four different prime numbers are factors of $${n}^{2}$$.
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Less than 35 years after the release of African honeybees outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, their descendants, popularly known as killer bees, had migrated as far north as southern Texas.
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The prairie vole, a small North American grassland rodent, breeds year-round, and a group of voles living together consists primarily of an extended family, often including two or more litters. Voles commonly live in large groups from late autumn through winter; from spring through early autumn, however, most voles live in far smaller groups. The seasonal variation in group size can probably be explained by a seasonal variation in mortality among young voles.Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the explanation offered?
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Is the product of a certain pair of integers even?(1)The sum of the integers is odd.(2)One of the integers is even and the other is odd.
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According to the passage, which of the following may account for the inconsistency between the general density dependence model and the evidence provided by certain studies of foundings?
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In a stack of boards at a lumber yard, the 20th board counting from the top of the stack is immediately below the 16th board counting from the bottom of the stack. How many boards are in the stack?
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Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, because he was excited with the prospects of harnessing Niagara Falls for producing electric power, he predicted in the mid-1890's that electricity generated at Niagara would one day power the streetcars of London and the streetlights of Paris.
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A popular beach has long had a dolphin feeding program in which fish are given to dolphins several times a day; many dolphins get as much as half of their food each day there. Although dolphins that first benefit from the program as adults are healthy and long-lived, their offspring have a lower life expectancy than offspring of dolphins that feed exclusively in the wild.Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the lower life expectancy of offspring of dolphins feeding at the beach compared to other young dolphins?
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