No nation can long survive unless its people are united by a common tongue. For proof, we need only consider Canada, which is being torn asunder by conflicts between French-speaking Quebec and the other provinces, which are dominated by English speakers.
Which of the following, if true, most effectively challenges the author’s conclusion?
(A) Conflicts over language [...]
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The upcoming presidential election in the West African republic of Ganelon is of grave concern to the U.S. State Department. Ganelon presently has strong political and military ties to the United States. However, the Socialist party is widely expected to win the election, leading to fears that Ganelon will soon break away from the pro-American [...]
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44. According to Henry David Thoreau, the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger.
(A) the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger
(B) [...]
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I came across these questions in The Princeton Review ?Cracking the GMAT? 2005 edition. I was not completly conviced with the explaination of the answer they gave and wanted to have a discussion on these question. Hence I am posting it here.
These are Critical Reasoning Questions.
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Questions 1-2 are based on the following passage.
A system-wide county [...]
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I am having trouble with the following question - It seems easy, but these are one of the few types of questions I seem to frequently get wrong.
“If y is an integer, is y^3 (y cubed) divisible by 9?
(1) y is divisible by 4
(2) y is divisible by 6
The answer is B (only 2 is [...]
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The burden of maintaining the U.S. highway system falls disproportionately on the trucking industry. Trucks represent only about 10 percent of the vehicles on U.S. roads. Yet road use taxes assessed on trucks amount to almost half the taxes paid for highway upkeep and repair.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument [...]
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Reva: Using extraneous incentives to get teenagers to change their attitude toward school and schoolwork won’t work. Take the program in West Virginia, for instance, where they tried to reduce their dropout rate by revoking the driving licenses of kids who left school. The program failed miserably.
Anne: It’s true that the West Virginia program failed, [...]
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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociological analysis contends that minority business ownership is a group-level phenomenon, in that it is largely dependent upon social-group resources for its development. Specifically, this analysis indicates that support networks play a critical role in starting and maintaining minority business enterprises by providing owners with a [...]
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46. According to Interstudy, a nonprofit organization that studies health maintenance organizations (HMO’s), they estimate that, in comparison to last year, when only 36 percent of the nation’s 607 HMO’s was profitable, this year 73 percent will be.
(A) they estimate that, in comparison to last year, when only 36 percent of the [...]
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47. According to scientists at the University of California, the pattern of changes that have occurred in human DNA over the millennia indicate the possibility that everyone alive today might be descended from a single female ancestor who lived in Africa sometime between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago.
(A) indicate the possibility that [...]
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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.
A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.
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45. According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s and the body like his wife’s.
(A) modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s and the body like his wife’s
(B) modeled the face of the statue after [...]
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As an experienced labor organizer and the former head of one of the nation’s most powerful labor unions, Grayson is an excellent choice to chair the new council on business-labor relations.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?
(A) The new council must have the support of the nation’s labor leaders if [...]
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In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on [...]
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The points A, B, C and D are on the number line but not necessarily in that order. Distance between A and B is 18, distance between C and D is 8, what is the distance between B and D ?
a) Distance between C and A is same as Distance between C and B
b) A [...]
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At a certain health club, 30% of the members use both the pool and the sauna,but 40% of the members who use the pool donot use the sauna. What 5 of the members of the health club use the pool ?
1) 33 1/3
2) 40
3) 50
4) 62.5
5) 75
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A customer using a certain telephone plan pays a fee of 25$ per month,
and then receives a 40% discount on regular charge for all calls made
to country A. If calls to Country A are regularly charges at 1.64 per
minute for the first 3 minutes, and -8$ per minute for each minute
thereafter, waht is the maximum [...]
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