If m is an integer, is m/2 an even integer?

(1) m/4 is an integer.

(2) m/2 is an integer.

A if statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (2) is not.
B if statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (1) is not.
C if both statements (1) and (2) when taken TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question but NEITHER statement taken alone is sufficient.
D if EITHER statement taken ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
E if the two statements, even when taken together, are NOT sufficient to answer the question.

In the xy-plane, the line with equation ax + by + c = 0, where abc ? 0, has slope 2/3 . What is the value of b?

(1) a = 4
(2) c = ?6

A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

(1) n + 0.001 > 3

(2) n + 0.0001 < 3

A if statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (2) is not.
B if statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (1) is not.
C if both statements (1) and (2) when taken TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question but NEITHER statement taken alone is sufficient.
D if EITHER statement taken ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
E if the two statements, even when taken together, are NOT sufficient to answer the question.

What is the volume of a certain cube?

(1) The total surface area of the cube is 24.

(2) The diagonal of the cube has a length of 2 multiplied by the square root of 3.

A if statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (2) is not.
B if statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question but statement (1) is not.
C if both statements (1) and (2) when taken TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question but NEITHER statement taken alone is sufficient.
D if EITHER statement taken ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.

E if the two statements, even when taken together, are NOT sufficient to answer the question.
If 2 < n < 3, is the hundredths digit of the decimal fraction part of  n equal to 9?

Last spring a Colorado health department survey of 72 playgrounds in private child-care centers
found unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them and they ranged from splinters to equipment near
collapse.
(A) unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them and they ranged
(B) conditions in 95 percent were unsafe and ranging
(C) the ranging of unsafe conditions in 95 percent of them to be
(D) that 95 percent had unsafe conditions ranging
(E) that 95 percent of them had conditions that were unsafe; the range was

Stations X and Y are connected by two separate, straight, parallel rail lines that are 250 miles long. Train P and train Q simultaneously left Station X and Station Y, respectively, and each train traveled to the other’s point of departure. The two trains passed each other after traveling for 2 hours. When the two trains passed, which train was nearer to its destination?
(1) At the time when the two trains passed, train P had averaged a speed of 70 miles per hour.
(2) Train Q averaged a speed of 55 miles per hour for the entire trip.

A Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have des
Since the early 1970’s, historians have begun to devote serious attention to the working class in the United
States. Yet while we now have studies of working-class communities and culture, we know remarkably little of
worklessness. When historians have paid any attention at all to unemployment, they have focused on the Great
Depression of the 1930’s. The narrowness of this perspective ignores the pervasive recessions and joblessness
of the previous decades, as Alexander Keyssar shows in his recent book. Examining the period 1870-1920, Keyssar
concentrates on Massachusetts, where the historical materials are particularly rich, and the findings
applicable to other industrial areas.
The unemployment rates that Keyssar calculates appear to be relatively modest, at least by Great Depression
standards: during the worst years, in the 1870’s and 1890’s, unemployment was around 15 percent. Yet Keyssar
rightly understands that a better way to measure the impact of unemployment is to calculate unemployment
frequencies—measuring the percentage of workers who experience any unemployment in the course of a year. Given
this perspective, joblessness looms much larger.
Keyssar also scrutinizes unemployment patterns according to skill level, ethnicity, race, age, class, and

gender. He finds that rates of joblessness differed primarily according to class: those in middle-class and

white-collar occupations were far less likely to be unemployed. Yet the impact of unemployment on a specific

class was not always the same. Even when dependent on the same trade, adjoining communities could have

dramatically different unemployment rates. Keyssar uses these differential rates to help explain a phenomenon

that has puzzled historians—the startlingly high rate of geographical mobility in the nineteenth-century United

States. But mobility was not the dominant working-class strategy for coping with unemployment, nor was

assistance from private charities or state agencies. Self-help and the help of kin got most workers through

jobless spells.While Keyssar might have spent more time developing the implications of his findings

onjoblessnessforcontemporary public policy, his study, in its thorough research and creative use of

quantitative and qualitative evidence, is a model of historical analysis.

1) The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) recommending a new course of investigation
(B) summarizing and assessing a study
(C) making distinctions among categories
(D) criticizing the current state of a field
(E) comparing and contrasting two methods for calculating data

2) The passage suggests that before the early 1970’s, which of the following was true of the study by

historians of the working class in the United States?
(A) The study was infrequent or superficial, or both.
(B) The study was repeatedly criticized for its allegedly narrow focus.
(C) The study relied more on qualitative than quantitative evidence.
(D) The study focused more on the working-class community than on working-class culture.
(E) The study ignored working-class joblessness during the Great Depression.

3) According to the passage, which of the following is true of Keyssar’s findings concerning unemployment in

Massachusetts?
(A) They tend to contradict earlier findings about such unemployment.
(B) They are possible because Massachusetts has the most easily accessible historical records.
(C) They are the first to mention the existence of high rates of geographical mobility in the nineteenth

century.
(D) They are relevant to a historical understanding of the nature of unemployment in other states.
(E) They have caused historians to reconsider the role of the working class during the Great Depression.

4) According to the passage, which of the following is true of the unemployment rates mentioned in line 15?
(A) They hovered, on average, around 15 percent during the period 1870-1920.
(B) They give less than a full sense of the impact of unemployment on working-class people.
(C) They overestimate the importance of middle class and white-collar unemployment.
(D) They have been considered by many historians to underestimate the extent of working-class unemployment.
(E) They are more open to question when calculated for years other than those of peak recession.

5) Which of the following statements about the unemployment rate during the Great Depression can be inferred

from the passage?
(A) It was sometimes higher than 15 percent.
(B) It has been analyzed seriously only since the early 1970’s.
(C) It can be calculated more easily than can unemployment frequency.
(D) It was never as high as the rate during the 1870’s.
(E) It has been shown by Keyssar to be lower than previously thought.

6) According to the passage, Keyssar considers which of the following to be among the important predictors of

the likelihood that a particular person would be unemployed in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts?
I) The person’s class
II) Where the person lived or worked
III) The person’s age
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) I and III only
(E) I, II, and III

7) The author views Keyssar’s study with
(A) impatient disapproval
(B) wary concern
(C) polite skepticism
(D) scrupulous neutrality
(E) qualified admiration

Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support Keyssar’s findings as they are described by the

author?
(A) Boston, Massachusetts, and Quincy, Massachusetts, adjoining communities, had a higher rate of unemployment

for working-class people in 1870 than in 1890.
(B) White-collar professionals such as attorneys had as much trouble as day laborers in maintaining a steady

level of employment throughout the period 1870-1920.
(C) Working-class women living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were more likely than working-class men living in

Cambridge to be unemployed for some period of time during the year 1873.
(D) In the 1890’s, shoe-factory workers moved away in large numbers from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where shoe

factories were being replaced by other industries, to adjoining West Chelmsford, where the shoe industry

flourished.
(E) In the late nineteenth century, workers of all classes in Massachusetts were more likely than workers of

all classes in other states to move their place of residence from one location to another within the state.

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Consumer income reports produced by the govern- ment distinguish between households and families by means of the following definition: “A family is a household containing a householder and at least one person related to the householder.” Except for the homeless and people in group living quarters, most people live in households. According to the definition above, which of the
following must be true?
(A) All householders are members of families.
(B) All families include a householder.
(C) All of the people related to a householder form a family.
(D) Some people residing in group living quarters are members of families.
(E) Some homeless people reside in group livingquarters

Point D is midpoint of AB and E is midpoint of AC. What is the ratio between the area of triangle DEF and triangle ABC.

A) 1:4

B) 1:9

C) 1:12

D) 4:9

E) can not be determined

A certain list consists of 3 different numbers) Does the median of the 3 numbers equal
the average (arithmetic mean) of the 3 numbers?
(1) The range of the 3 numbers is equal to twice the difference between the greatest
number and the median)
(2) The sum of the 3 numbers is equal to 3 times one of the numbers)
A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient)
B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient)
C) BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient)
D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient)
E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient)

A total of $60,000 was invested for one year. But of this amount earned simple annual interest at the rate of x percent per year, and the rest earned simple annual interest at the rate of y percent per year. If the total interest earned by the $60,000 for that year was $4,080, what is the value of x?

(1) x = (3/4) y
(2) The ratio of the amount that earned interest at the rate of x percent per year to the amount that earned interest at the rate of y percent per year was 3 to 2.

A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

The country of Maravia has severe air pollution, 80 percent of which is caused by the exhaust fumes of cars. In order to reduce the number of cars on the road, the government is raising taxes on the cost of buying and running a car by 20 percent. This tax increase, therefore, will significantly reduce air pollu- tion in Maravia. Which of the following, if true, most seriously
weakens the argument above?

(A) The government of Maravia is in the process ofbuilding a significant number of roadways.
(B) Maravia is an oil-producing country and is ableto refine an amount of gasoline sufficient for
the needs of its population.
(C) Maravia has had an excellent public transporta- tion system for many years.
(D) Ninety percent of the population of Maravia is very prosperous and has a substantial
amount of disposable income.
(E) In Maravia, cars that emit relatively low levels of pollutants cost 10 percent less to operate,
on average, than do cars that emit high levels of pollutants

Z=123^4-123^3+123^2-123, what is the remainder when Z is divided by 122.

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
E) 4

Despite the approach of winter, oil prices to indus- trial customers are exceptionally low this year and likely to remain so. Therefore, unless the winter is especially severe, the price of natural gas to indus- trial customers is also likely to remain low. Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the conclusion above?

(A) Long-term weather forecasts predict a mild winter.

(B) The industrial users who consume most natural gas can quickly and cheaply switch to using
oil instead.
(C) The largest sources of supply for both oil and natural gas are in subtropical regions unlikely
to be affected by winter weather.
(D) The fuel requirements of industrial users of nat- ural gas are not seriously affected by the
weather.
(E) Oil distribution is more likely to be affected by severe winter weather than is the distribution
of natural gas.

This year, Ross instituted two major changes to the undergrad program: it’s now three years and you can apply out of high school

This year’s freshman business majors at the University of Michigan were the first to be admitted as business majors. Prior to this fall, students could only apply to the Ross School of Business at the end of sophomore year. Now students have the option of applying directly to Ross while they are still high school seniors, or else once they get to Michigan, says Michele Thompson, director of BBA admissions.

The school also changed the length of its undergraduate program this year from two to three years, though the curriculum is staying the same. Thompson, a Michigan (undergraduate) and Thunderbird (MBA) alum, is starting her third year in Ann Arbor. She started out at Michigan as associate director of MBA admissions before moving to the undergraduate world.

She recently spoke to BusinessWeek.com reporter Julie Gordon. Here are edited excerpts of their conversation:

This was the first year that Michigan allowed high school seniors to apply directly to Ross. Why?
We find that the BBA program is very attractive and competitive and we wanted to allow students the opportunity to have that peace of mind that they would be able to be admitted to the School of Business without having to apply during their freshman year (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/17/06, “A ‘Luxurious Position’ at Michigan”).

What are the benefits of the new three-year program versus the old two-year program?
There’s less stress on the students in their junior year. Rather than having five super-hard quantitative courses in one year, they might have a couple in their sophomore year and then maybe three in their junior year. That allows some flexibility for them to do a dual degree as well. If it were a two-year program, they could do a dual-degree, but they would have had to have figured it out in their freshman year. It was tough for students to do the dual degree. Now it should be much easier, and we expect an increase in the number of students who do a dual degree.

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What are the largest and smallest full-time business programs?

Here we list the business schools by the size of their full-time programs, from the largest to the smallest. Data are based on their fall 2005 M.B.A. enrollment.

Name                                Enrollments
Harvard University  (MA)      1,821
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)     1,626
Columbia University (NY)     1,180
University of Chicago     1,093
Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)     1,067
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)     882
East Carolina University (NC)     834
Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)     823
New York University (Stern)     775
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)     752
Stanford University (CA)     748
University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)     657
University of Virginia (Darden)     617
Thunderbird (Garvin) (AZ)     608
Southern University and A&M College (LA)     584
Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)     579
University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)     575
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)     549
Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)     504
University of Southern California (Marshall)     503
Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)     498
University of California–Berkeley (Haas)     492
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh     470
Yale University (CT)     438
Babson College (Olin) (MA)     428
Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)     387
Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN)     374
University of New Mexico (Anderson)     363
San Diego State University     352
Fordham University (NY)     349
Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)     345
Naval Postgraduate School (CA)     340
University of Denver (Daniels)     339
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA)     316
University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) (IN)     309
University of San Francisco (Masagung)     309
Rice University (Jones) (TX)     292
Boston University     288
Fairleigh Dickinson University (Silberman) (NJ)     279
University at Buffalo–SUNY     278
University of Rochester (Simon) (NY)     272
California State Polytechnic Univ.–Pomona     270
Ohio State University (Fisher)     261
Auburn University–Montgomery (AL)     260
Texas A&M University–Commerce     260
University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)     260
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)     260
Stetson University (FL)     251
Santa Clara University (Leavey) (CA)     243
Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT)     241
St. John’s University (Tobin) (NY)     241
Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)     237
University of Wisconsin–Madison     229
University of Washington     226
Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) (OH)     225
Wayne State University (MI)     222
University of South Carolina (Moore)     214
San Francisco State University     207
University of Missouri–Columbia     204
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)     202
Northeastern University (MA)     198
Wake Forest University (Babcock) (NC)     193
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign     192
Michigan State University (Broad)     186
University of Pittsburgh (Katz)     185
Arizona State University–Main Campus (Carey)     183
Boston College (Carroll)     177
University of California–Irvine (Merage)     177
California State University–San Bernardino     172
University of Memphis (Fogelman)     172
Clark University (MA)     169
Southeastern Louisiana University     169
Drexel University (LeBow) (PA)     166
Hofstra University (Zarb) (NY)     164
American University (Kogod) (DC)     161
Missouri State University     161
Middle Tennessee State University     160
Pace University (Lubin) (NY)     160
Weber State University (Goddard) (UT)     158
University of Texas–Arlington     155
George Washington University (DC)     152
Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)     149
University of South Florida     148
Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX)     145
Claremont Graduate School (Drucker) (CA)     144
University of North Florida (Coggin)     143
Cleveland State University (Nance)     139
Pennsylvania State University–University Park (Smeal)     139
University of Tennessee–Knoxville     139
Rutgers State University–New Brunswick and Newark (NJ)     138
Georgia Institute of Technology     136
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Eberly)     136
Willamette University (Atkinson) (OR)     136
Rollins College (Crummer) (FL)     134
University of Kentucky (Gatton)     133
College of William and Mary (VA)     132
Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge (Ourso)     132
Temple University (Fox) (PA)     132
University of Arizona (Eller)     130
Western Michigan University (Haworth)     130
University of Georgia (Terry)     128
Suffolk University (Sawyer) (MA)     126
University of Tampa (Sykes) (FL)     126
University of Iowa (Tippie)     125
University of South Alabama (Mitchell)     122
University of California–Davis     117
California State University–Los Angeles     115
University of Colorado–Boulder (Leeds)     113
University of Miami (FL)     112
University of Missouri–St. Louis     112
University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa (Manderson)     110
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee     110
University of Texas–San Antonio     109
Syracuse University (Whitman) (NY)     108
Duquesne University (Donahue) (PA)     107
University of Connecticut     106
Graduate College of Union University (NY)     105
University of South Dakota     105
Old Dominion University (VA)     104
University of California–Riverside (Anderson)     104
University of Utah (Eccles)     104
Binghamton University (NY)     102
Kent State University (OH)     98
University of Akron (OH)     98
University of Florida (Warrington)     98
University of Massachusetts–Boston     98
University of Oregon (Lundquist)     98
University of Toledo (OH)     97
Gonzaga University (WA)     96
Marshall University (Lewis) (WV)     95
University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth (Charlton)     95
St. Joseph’s University (Haub) (PA)     93
Murray State University (KY)     90
Loyola Marymount University (CA)     89
University of Oklahoma (Price)     89
CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin)     88
Mississippi State University     88
Oklahoma State University (Spears)     88
Pittsburg State University (Kelce) (KS)     88
Texas Christian University (Neeley)     88
Lamar University–Beaumont (TX)     87
New Jersey Institute of Technology     86
Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)     86
Stephen F. Austin State University (TX)     86
SUNY–Albany     86
Virginia Tech (Pamplin)     86
California Polytechnic State Univ.–San Luis Obispo (Orfalea)     85
University of Kansas     83
California State University–Chico     82
University of Delaware (Lerner)     81
Howard University (DC)     80
Monterey Inst. of International Studies (Fisher) (CA)     80
University of North Carolina–Charlotte (Belk)     80
Iowa State University     79
University of Massachusetts–Amherst (Isenberg)     79
Indiana State University     76
Eastern Illinois University (Lumpkin)     75
North Carolina State University     75
University of Texas–Dallas     74
Illinois Institute of Technology (Stuart)     73
University of Cincinnati     73
Baylor University (Hankamer) (TX)     72
Idaho State University     72
Auburn University–Main Campus (AL)     71
Georgia Southern University     71
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater     71
Pepperdine University (Graziadio) (CA)     70
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) (NY)     69
Western Illinois University     68
Florida International University     66
Texas Tech University (Rawls)     65
Portland State University (OR)     63
Central Missouri State University (Harmon)     62
Clemson University (SC)     62
Clarkson University (NY)     61
Louisiana Tech University     61
Oregon State University     61
University of Arkansas–Fayetteville (Walton)     55
Florida State University     54
Ball State University (Miller) (IN)     53
Texas A&M International University     53
University of Maine     53
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse     53
Western Carolina University (NC)     53
Pennsylvania State University–Erie, The Behrend College (Black)     52
Emporia State University (KS)     51
Ohio University     51
DePaul University (Kellstadt) (IL)     50
Kansas State University     50
Pacific Lutheran University (WA)     50
St. Bonaventure University (NY)     50
West Virginia University     50
Bentley College (McCallum) (MA)     49
Illinois State University     49
Nicholls State University (LA)     49
Northern Kentucky University     48
St. Louis University (Cook)     48
Bowling Green State University (OH)     47
University of New Hampshire (Whittemore)     47
University of North Carolina–Greensboro (Bryan)     47
University of Tulsa (OK)     47
SUNY–Oswego     46
University of Southern Mississippi     46
Tennessee State University     45
University of Central Florida     45
Tennessee Technological University     43
Montana State University     42
St. Cloud State University (Herberger) (MN)     42
University of Mississippi     42
Southern Illinois University–Carbondale     40
University of Portland (Pamplin) (OR)     40
University of Scranton (PA)     40
Lehigh University (PA)     39
Quinnipiac University (Lender) (CT)     39
East Tennessee State University     38
University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) (CA)     38
Long Island University–C.W. Post Campus (NY)     37
University of San Diego     36
University of Tennessee–Martin     36
Utah State University     36
Eastern Washington University     35
Western Washington University     35
Salisbury University (Perdue) (MD)     34
George Mason University (VA)     32
Clarion University of Pennsylvania     31
Morehead State University (KY)     31
Abilene Christian University (TX)     30
Boise State University (ID)     30
Pennsylvania State University–Harrisburg     30
Radford University (VA)     30
Truman State University (MO)     30
Western Kentucky University (Ford)     30
Chapman University (Argyros) (CA)     29
University of West Florida     29
John Carroll University (OH)     26
The Citadel (SC)     24
California State University–Stanislaus     23
North Dakota State University     23
University of Rhode Island     23
Washington State University     23
California State University–Long Beach     22
Colorado State University–Pueblo     21
San Jose State University (CA)     21
University of West Georgia (Richards)     21
University of Texas–Pan American     20
Millsaps College (Else) (MS)     19
University of North Dakota     19
Canisius College (Wehle) (NY)     18
Northern Arizona University     17
Miami University (Farmer) (OH)     15
Saginaw Valley State University (MI)     15
University of Vermont     15
Appalachian State University (Walker) (NC)     14
Rowan University (NJ)     10
University of Alaska–Fairbanks     10
Fairfield University (Dolan) (CT)     9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)     7
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (Grove)     5
Alfred University (NY)     3

(Source: Usnews.com)

Ms. Ingres has filed a lawsuit against the firm claiming that she is the victim of gender-based discrimination because she was not promoted to partner. The firm has reviewed her personnel records and concluded that she had an excellent work record that was superior to the records of several men with fewer years of service who were promoted to partner. Additionally, there are no negative entries in her file. Nonetheless, we feel justified in refusing to make her a partner because this lawsuit shows that she is not a team player.

The reasoning of the speaker is most similar to which of the following?

(A) An elected official who is charged with corruption but refuses to resign from office pending a full investigation into the matter

(B) A contractor who acknowledges that faulty materials were used in a building but claims that he was defrauded by a supplier

(C) A young man who admits killing both of his parents who pleads for a judge to show him mercy because he is an orphan

(D) A teacher who gives a student a failing mark on a term paper after the student admits to plagiarizing the paper

(E) A soldier who refuses to follow orders from a superior officer and argues that the orders were immoral and therefore invalid

In the United States, injuries to passengers involved in automobile accidents are typically more severe than in Europe, where laws require a different kind of safety belt. It is clear from this that the United States needs to adopt more stringent standards for safety belt design to protect automobile passengers better.Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument above EXCEPT:

(A) Europeans are more likely to wear safety belts than are people in the United States.
(B) Unlike United States drivers, European drivers receive training in how best to react in the
event of an accident to minimize injuries to themselves and to their passengers.
(C) Cars built for the European market tend to have more sturdy construction than do cars
built for the United States market.
(D) Automobile passengers in the United States have a greater statistical chance of being
involved in an accident than do passengers in Europe.
(E) States that have recently begun requiring the European safety belt have experienced no
reduction in the average severity of injuries suffered by passengers in automobile accidents.

Scientists calculated that the asteroid, traveling at 46,000 miles an hour, is on an elliptical path that orbits the Sun once a year and regularly brings it back toward Earth.

(A) hour, is on an elliptical path that orbits the Sun once a year and regularly brings it
(B) hour, is orbiting the Sun once a year on an elliptical path that regularly brings it
(C) hour, once a year orbits the Sun, regularly bringing it on an elliptical path
(D) hour and orbiting the Sun once a year on an elliptical path, regularly bringing it
(E) hour, orbits the Sun on an elliptical path once a year and that regularly brings it

If r, s, and w are positive numbers such that w = 60r + 80s and r + s = 1, is w < 70?
(1) r > 0.5
(2) r > s

A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.