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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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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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A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.
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The charge for a telephone call between City R and City S is $0.42 for each of the first 3 minutes and $0.18 for each additional minute. A certain call between these two cities lasted for x minutes, where x is an integer. How many minutes long was the call?(1)The charge for the first 3 minutes of the call was $0.36 less than the charge for the remainder of the call.(2)The total charge for the call was $2.88.
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When Leo imported a certain item, he paid a 7 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $1,000. If the amount of the import tax that Leo paid was $87.50, what was the total value of the item?
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According to the passage, today`s successful firms, unlike successful firms in the past, may earn the greatest profits by
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In Swartkans territory, archaeologists discovered charred bone fragments dating back one million years. Analysis of the fragments, which came from a variety of animals, showed that they had been heated to temperatures no higher than those produced in experimental campfires made from branches of white stinkwood, the most common tree around Swartkans.Which of the following, if true, would, together with the information above, provide the best basis for the claim that the charred bone fragments are evidence of the use of fire by early hominids?
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Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun's poles or equator.
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On Monday, a person mailed 8 packages weighing an average (arithmetic mean) of $$12\frac{3}{8}$$ pounds, and on Tuesday, 4 packages weighing an average of $$15\frac{1}{4}$$ pounds. What was the average weight, in pounds, of all the packages the person mailed on both days
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According to the passage, consumers began to develop a preference for VCRs in the VHS format because they believed which of the following?
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If Car X followed Car Y across a certain bridge that is $$\frac{1}{2}$$ mile long, how many seconds did it take Car X to travel across the bridge?(1)Car X drove onto the bridge exactly 3 seconds after Car Y drove onto the bridge and drove off the bridge exactly 2 seconds after Car Y drove off the bridge.(2)Car Y traveled across the bridge at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour.
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In Washington County, attendance at the movies is just large enough for the cinema operators to make modest profits. The size of the county`s population is stable and is not expected to increase much. Yet there are investors ready to double the number of movie screens in the county within five years, and they are predicting solid profits both for themselves and for the established cinema operators.Which of the following, if true about Washington County, most helps to provide a justification for the investors` prediction?
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Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the NationalAcademy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.
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If n + k = m, what is the value of k ?(1)n = 10(2)m + 10 = n
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The author implies that one way that VHS producers won control over the VCR market was by
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$$0.1+{0.1}^{2}+{0.1}^{3}=$$
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A conservation group in the United States is trying to change the long-standing image of bats as frightening creatures. The group contends that bats are feared and persecuted solely because they are shy animals that are active only at night.Which of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the accuracy of the group`s contention?
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Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July–September quarter more than doubled that of the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.
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The alignment of producers of VHS format VCRs with producers of prerecorded videotapes is most similar to which of the following?
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Is x an integer?(1)$$\frac x 2$$ is an integer.(2)2x is an integer.
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