What is the area of right triangle ABC below ? 1) AC^2=30 2) AB+BC=8 A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. C) Both statements 1 and [...]
The Industrial Revolution, making it possible to mass-produce manufactured goods, was marked by their use of new machines, new energy sources, and new basic materials. A) making it possible to mass-produce manufactured goods, was marked by their use of B) making possible the mass production of manufactured goods, marked by the use of C) which [...]
The figure above shows the circular cross section of a concrete water pipe. If the inside radius of the pipe is r feet and the outside radius of the pipe is t feet, what is the value of r ? (1) The ratio of t – r to r is 0.15 and t – r [...]
41. According to a study published by Dr. Myrna Weissman, only one percent of Americans born before 1905 had suffered major depression by the age of seventy-five; of those born since 1955, six percent had become depressed by age twenty-four. (A) only one percent of Americans born before 1905 had suffered major depression by the [...]
Meteorologists say that if only they could design an accurate mathematical model of the atmosphere with all its complexities, they could forecast the weather with real precision. But this is an idle boast, immune to any evaluation, for any inadequate weather forecast would obviously be blamed on imperfections in the model. Which of the following, [...]
Historians have long accepted the notion that women of English descent who lived in the English colonies of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were better off than either the contemporary women in England or the colonists own nineteenth-century daughters and granddaughters. The golden age theory originated in the 1920s with the work [...]
35. According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of confusion in the medical profession about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to appearance than to health. (A) about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a [...]
A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes. (A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump (B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping (C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have [...]
34. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern Minnesota would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than one wolf for every 39 square miles. (A) would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous [...]
Is B^3 is greater than or equal to B^2. (1) B is an integer. (2) B is positive. A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked. C) Both [...]
40. According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about equivalent to the enrollment of the nation’s four-year colleges and universities. (A) equivalent to the enrollment of (B) the equivalent of those enrolled [...]
37. According to a recent study by Rutgers University, the number of women in state legislatures has grown in every election since 1968. (A) the number of women in state legislatures has grown (B) the number of women who are in state legislatures have grown (C) there has been growth in the number of women [...]
38. According to a recent study, the elderly in the United States are four times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children as to receive it from them. (A) the elderly in the United States are four times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children as (B) the elderly [...]
The ancient city of Cephesa was not buried by an eruption of Mt. Amnos in A.D. 310, as some believe. The eruption in the year 310 damaged the city, but it did not destroy it. Cephesa survived for another century before it finally met its destruction in another eruption around A.D. 415. Which of the [...]
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