The value of a diamond is proportional to the square of its weight. It is broken into three pieces whose weights are in the ratio 3:2:5.Find the loss incurred due to breakage if the value of the original diamond is USD 20,000.
A. 12,600
B. 12,200
C. 12,000
D.12,400
E. 13,300
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Singapore has come to be known as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship. Presence of top schools, colleges,
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Six cards numbered from 1 to 6 are placed in an empty bowl. First one card is drawn and then put back into the bowl; then a second card is drawn. If the cards are drawn at random and if the sum of the numbers on the cards is 8, what is the probability that [...]
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The strength of a carbon-chlorine bond is stronger than that of a carbon-bromine bond, which is in turn greater than a carbon-iodine bond.
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Princess Diana’s dresses set the standard for all fashion houses in Europe. Such a thing didn’t happen before or since.
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By the time of Fidelio, it became clear that Beethoven’s dramatic and emotionally based composition had revolutionised the structure of classical music itself.
A) became clear
B) clarified
C) had clarified
D) had become clarified
E) had become clear
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The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.
(A) be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have
(B) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(C) seriously [...]
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Psychologists now contend that the way adults think and feel are determined as much by their peers in early childhood than by their parents.
(A) are determined as much by their peers in early childhood than by their
(B) are determined as much by peers in early childhood as do their
(C) is determined as much by their [...]
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Which of the following best completes the passage below?
One tax-reform proposal that has gained increasing support in recent years is the flat tax, which would impose a uniform tax rate on incomes at every level. Opponents of the flat tax say that a progressive tax system, which levies a higher rate of taxes on higher-income [...]
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