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Which of the following best describes one of the "elements of irony" referred to in the highlighted text?
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PREP07 Test 1
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Machines X and Y work at their respective constant rates. How many more hours does it take machine Y, working alone, to fill a production order of a certain size than it takes machine X, working alone?(1) Machines X and Y, working together, fill a production order of this size in two-thirds the time that machine X, working alone, does.(2) Machine Y, working alone, fills a production order of this size in twice the time that machine X, working alone, does.
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All of the stocks on the over-the-counter market are designated by either a 4-letter or a 5-letter code that is created by using the 26 letters of the alphabet. Which of the following gives the maximum number of different stocks that can be designated with these codes?
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The budget for education reflects the administration's demand that the money is controlled by local school districts, but it can only be spent on teachers, not on books, computers, or other materials or activities.
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In the two years following the unification of Germany in 1989, the number of cars owned by residents of East Germany and the total distance traveled by cars in East Germany both increased by about 40 percent. In those two years, however, the number of East German residents killed each year as car occupants in traffic accidents increased by about 300 percent.Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the disproportionate increase in traffic fatalities?
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PREP07 Test 1 PREP08 Test 2
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According to the passage, the development of archival research and the critical editing of collections of documents had which of the following effects?
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PREP07 Test 1
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John and Mary own shares of stock in a certain company. Does John own more shares of the company's stock than Mary?(1) Mary owns more than 500 shares of the company's stock.(2) The number of shares of the company's stock that John owns is 400 less than twice the number of shares of the company's stock that Mary owns.
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Mark bought a set of 6 flower pots of different sizes at a total cost of $8.25. Each pot cost $0.25 more than the next one below it in size. What was the cost, in dollars, of the largest pot?
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PREP07 Test 1
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As a result of a supernova explosion, every human being on Earth was bombarded on February 23, 1987, by about 100 billion neutrinos; fortunately, neutrinos are harmless elementary particles that are produced in nuclear reactions and that interact very weakly with matter.
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PREP07 Test 1
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Editorial: Regulations recently imposed by the government of Risemia call for unprecedented reductions in the amounts of pollutants manufacturers are allowed to discharge into the environment. It will take costly new pollution control equipment requiring expensive maintenance to comply with these regulations. Resultant price increases for Risemian manufactured goods will lead to the loss of some export markets. Clearly, therefore, annual exports of Risemian manufactured goods will in the future occur at diminished levels.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the editorial?
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Which of the following most accurately states the central purpose of the passage?
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PREP07 Test 1
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A committee of three people is to be chosen from four married couples. What is the number of different committees that can be chosen if two people who are married to each other cannot both serve on the committee?
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Each person in a certain group supports only one of the two candidates R and T. Of the people in the group, 45 percent support Candidate R and the rest support Candidate T. How many people in the group are in favor of a flat tax?(1) Of the people in the group who support Candidate R, 58 percent are in favor of a flat tax.(2) Of the people in the group who support Candidate T, 22 are in favor of a flat tax.
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A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.
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Paint on a new airliner is usually applied in two stages: first, a coat of primer, and then a top coat. A new process requires no primer, but instead uses two layers of the same newly developed coating, with each layer of the new coating having the same thickness and weight as a traditional top coat. Using the new process instead of the old process increases the price of a new aircraft considerably.Which of the following, if true, most strongly indicates that it is in an airline's long-term economic interest to purchase new airliners painted using the new process rather than the old process?
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PREP07 Test 1 PREP08 Test 1
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According to the passage, which of the following is true of comparable worth as a policy?
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In the xy-plane, at what two points does the graph y = (x + a)(x + b) intersect the x-axis?1. a + b = - 62. The graph contains the point (0, -7).
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PREP07 Test 1
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A certain company employs 6 senior officers and 4 junior officers. If a committee is to be created that is made up of 3 senior officers and 1 junior officer, how many different committees are possible?
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PREP07 Test 1
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Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have succeeded for the first time in mining heat from the Earth's interior and producing energy on a commercial scale, enough for efficient generation of electricity and heating factories and homes.
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In countries in which new life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, such drugs are sold at widely affordable prices; those same drugs, where patented, command premium prices because the patents shield patent-holding manufacturers from competitors. These facts show that future access to new life-sustaining drugs can be improved if the practice of granting patents on newly developed life-sustaining drugs were to be abolished everywhere.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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