The number of musicians employed to play accom- paniment for radio and television commercials has sharply decreased over the past ten years. This has occurred even though the number of commercials produced each year has not significantly changed for the last ten years. Which of the following, if it occurred during the past ten years, [...]
Advertisement: For sinus pain, three out of four hospitals give their patients Novex. So when you want the most effective painkiller for sinus pain, Novex is the one to choose. Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the advertisement’s argument? (A) Some competing brands of painkillers are intended to reduce other kinds of [...]
GMAT® Score: The GMAT® score is for a total of 800. The score is based on a combination of the Quantitative and Verbal sections and will be in a range of 200-800. The Verbal and Quantitative scaled scores range from 0 to 60. Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below [...]
The number of mountain gorillas is declining with such rapidity that the population is one-half in the twenty years between a count made by George Schaller in 1960 and the one made by Dian Fossey in 1980. (A) with such rapidity that the population is one-half (B) with such rapidity that the population was one-half [...]
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery that is all the more striking because it followed a long period of severe internal decline. By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds of the territory it had possessed in [...]
Increasingly, historians are blaming diseases imported from the Old World for the staggering disparity between the indigenous population of America in 1492—new estimates of which soar as high as 100 million, or approximately one-sixth of the human race at that time—and the few million full-blooded Native Americans alive at the end of the nineteenth century. [...]
In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords’ failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords’ control. Concentration of the samurai in castle-towns [...]
A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a duke’s daughter, Harold Macmillan’s rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many, though Churchill had since the 1930s been extolling Macmillan’s courage. (A) Harold Macmillan’s rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many (B) Harold Macmillan’s rise in 1957 to the [...]
In 1986, the city of Los Diablos had 20 days on which air pollution reached unhealthful amounts and a smog alert was put into effect. In early 1987, new air pollution control measures were enacted, but the city had smog alerts on 31 days that year and on 39 days the following year. In 1989, [...]
Dr. A: The new influenza vaccine is useless at best and possibly dangerous. I would never use it on a patient. Dr. B: But three studies published in the Journal of Medical Associates have rated that vaccine as unusually effective. Dr. A: The studies must have been faulty because the vaccine is worthless. In which [...]
The law-and-literature movement claims to have introduced a valuable pedagogical innovation into legal study: instructing students in techniques of literary analysis for the purpose of interpreting laws and in the reciprocal use of legal analysis for the purpose of interpreting literary texts. The results, according to advocates, are not only conceptual breakthroughs in both law [...]
The proportion of manufacturing companies in Alameda that use microelectronics in their manufacturing processes increased from 6 percent in 1979 to 66 percent in 1990. Many labor leaders say that the introduction of microelectronics is the principal cause of the great increase in unemployment during that period in Alameda. In actual fact, however, most of [...]
When x is divided by y, the remainder is 9, and x/y=96.12, y=?
A location network is connected by 10 lines. If one of the lines breaks, the whole net falls apart. During a time of T, the probability that each of 10 lines will break is 0.6, then, what is the probability that the net will fall apart during time period T?
N is an integer greater than 6, which of the following must be divisible by 3? The choices are n(n+5)(n-3), n(n+2)(n+5), n(n+1)(n-4) , n(n+1)(n-2), and so on.
What is the remainder when x is divided by 3? 1). The sum of the digits of X is 5 2). When X is divided by 9, the remainder is 2
Of the 120 members attended the 1999 conference, 40 attended neither 1998 conference nor 1997 conference. How many members attended 1997 conference? 1). 25 members attended both 1997 conference and 1998 conference. 2). 30 attended 1997 conference but not 1998 conference. A question like this, not very sure. IN MY OPINION THE CORRECT WORDING SHOULD [...]
A function f(c), when c>0, f(c)=2x, when c<0, f(c)=x^2(Forget c=0 belong to which situation). f(c)=? 1). |c|=2 2). c<0
Three kinds of ice cream are on sale, Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry. If ratio of the sales volume of vanilla to that of strawberry is 9 to 2, how many chocolate was sold? 1). Chocolate: Strawberry=10:7 2). Less than 120 ice creams had been sold.
1/91+1/92+…1/100=S. Which of the following is less than S? I.1/8 II. 1/9 III. 1/10
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