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For all integers n, the function f is defined by $${f}({n})={a}^{n}$$, where a is a constant. What is the value of $$f (1)$$?(1)$$f (2) = 100$$(2)$$f (3) = -1,000$$
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OG12 PREP07 Test 2
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Offshore oil-drilling operations entail an unavoidable risk of an oil spill, but importing oil on tankers presently entails an even greater such risk per barrel of oil. Therefore, if we are to reduce the risk of an oil spill without curtailing our use of oil, we must invest more in offshore operations and import less oil on tankers.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
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Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.
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The selling price of an article is equal to the cost of the article plus the markup. The markup on a certain television set is what percent of the selling price?(1)The markup on the television set is 25 percent of the cost.(2)The selling price of the television set is $250.
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According to the passage, which of the following shapes the oral narratives of women storytellers?
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$$\frac{1}{(0.75-1)}=$$
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Thyrian lawmaker: Thyria`s Cheese Importation Board inspects all cheese shipments to Thyria and rejects shipments not meeting specifi ed standards. Yet only 1 percent is ever rejected. Therefore, since the health consequences and associated economic costs of not rejecting that 1 percent are negligible, whereas the board`s operating costs are considerable, for economic reasons alone the board should be disbanded.
Consultant: I disagree. The threat of having their shipments rejected deters many cheese exporters from shipping substandard product.The consultant responds to the lawmaker`s argument by_____.
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In 1850, Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on Women, arguing in a treatise for women to have equal political and legal rights and for changes in the married women's property laws.
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If $${p}_{1}$$ and $${p}_{2}$$ are the populations and $${r}_{1}$$ and $${r}_{2}$$ are the numbers of representatives of District 1 and District 2, respectively, the ratio of the population to the number of representatives is greater for which of the two districts?(1)$${p}_{1} >{p}_{2}$$(2)$${r}_{2} >{r}_{1}$$
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If $$\frac{1.5}{0.2+x}=5$$,then x=
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The author of the passage would be most likely to make which of the following recommendations to scholars of women`s history?
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Which of the following best completes the passage below?The computer industry`s estimate that it loses millions of dollars when users illegally copy programs without paying for them is greatly exaggerated. Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programs. Thus, the loss to the industry is quite small, because_____.
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OG12
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In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne Boleyn.
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In a random sample of 80 adults, how many are college graduates?(1)In the sample, the number of adults who are not college graduates is 3 times the number who are college graduates.(2)In the sample, the number of adults who are not college graduates is 40 more than the number who are college graduates.
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Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?
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In the figure above, the point on segment PQ that is twice as far from P as from Q is
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 GWD PREP08 Test 1
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The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television.In order to evaluate the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
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OG12
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Dr. Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each specifically targeted at an invading microbe or foreign substance.
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OG12 OG15 OG16 OG17 PREP07 Test 1 OG18
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According to the passage, scholars of women`s history should refrain from doing which of the following?
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The table above shows the distance, in kilometers, by the most direct route, between any two of the four cities, R, S, T, and U. For example, the distance between City R and City U is 62 kilometers. What is the value of x ?(1)By the most direct route, the distance between S and T is twice the distance between S and R.(2)By the most direct route, the distance between T and U is 1.5 times the distance between R and T.
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