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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q21 Passage:In a recent study, researchers collected current prices for the 300 most common pharmaceutical drugs from the leading wholesalers specializing in bulk sales. It was found that these prices average 60 to 80 percent below the suggested wholesale prices listed for the same drugs in the curr...
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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q22 Passage:Theorist: Hatred and anger, grief and despair, love and joy are pairs of emotions that consist of the same core feeling and are distinguishable from each other only in terms of the social conditions that cause them and the behavior they in turn cause. So even if the meaning of a given pi...
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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q23 Passage:For a computer to be intelligent, it must possess at least one of three qualities: creativity, self-awareness, or the ability to learn from its mistakes. Because the AR3000 is not creative or self-aware, it must have the ability to learn from its mistakes if it is intelligent. Stem:Whic...
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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q24 Passage:Mallotech portrays itself to the public as a socially responsible company, but critics charge that employees in many of its factories work in unsanitary conditions. Unless these critics are mistaken, then, Mallotech is not accurately portraying itself to the public. Stem:The argument's c...
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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q25 Passage:Many conceptual categories are parts of dichotomous (distinct and mutually exclusive) pairs: good or bad, right or wrong, rational or irrational, etc. However, advances in scientific understanding have shown some long-held dichotomies to be untenable. Some life forms have characteristic...
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Question ID:PT77 S4 Q26 Passage:All oceangoing ships carry seawater ballast tanks whose weight improves stability. To maintain the ship's proper stability, water must be pumped out of these tanks when cargo is loaded and into them when cargo is unloaded. As a result, sea creatures often get into the tanks and are then ...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q1 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q2 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q3 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q4 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q5 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q6 Passage:"Never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The most piercing dissonances clash in a really atrocious harmony, and a few puny ideas only increase the disagreeable and deafening effect." This remark aptly characterizes the reaction of many l...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q7 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in acad...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q8 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in acad...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q9 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in acad...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q10 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in aca...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q11 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in aca...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q12 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in aca...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q13 Passage:The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.Industries that use biotechnology are convinced that intellectual property protection should be allowable for discoveries that stem from research and have commercial potential. Biotechnology researchers in aca...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q14 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q15 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q16 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q17 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q18 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q19 Passage:Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. Most historians have insisted that w...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q20 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q21 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q22 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q23 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q24 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q25 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q26 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S1 Q27 Passage:Passage AKarl Popper's main contribution to the philosophy of science concerns the power of negative evidence. The fundamental point is simple: No number of white swans, for example, can ever prove that all swans are white, but a single black swan disproves the hypothesis. Popper gives t...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q1 Passage:In the bodies of reptiles, some industrial by-products cause elevated hormonal activity. Hormones govern the development of certain body parts, and in reptiles abnormal development of these parts occurs only with elevated hormonal activity. Recently, several alligators with the telltale d...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q2 Passage:Government official: Residents who are foreign citizens can serve as public servants at most levels, but not as cabinet secretaries. This is wise, since cabinet secretaries perform some duties that should be performed only by citizens, and no one should be appointed to a position if it in...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q3 Passage:Doris: I've noticed that everyone involved in student government is outspoken. So if we want students to be more outspoken, we should encourage them to become involved in student government.Zack: Those who are in student government became involved precisely because they are outspoken in t...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q4 Passage:Biologist: A careful study of the behavior of six individual chameleons concluded that lizards such as chameleons bask in the sun not only for warmth but also to regulate their production of vitamin D. Critics of the study‚ although correct in observing that its sample size was very small...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q5 Passage:Political scientist: Some analysts point to the government's acceptance of the recent protest rally as proof that the government supports freedom of popular expression. But the government supports no such thing. Supporting freedom of popular expression means accepting the expression of id...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q6 Passage:Lawyer: In addition to any other penalties, convicted criminals must now pay a "victim surcharge" of $30. The surcharge is used to fund services for victims of violent crimes, but this penalty is unfair to nonviolent criminals since the surcharge applies to all crimes, even nonviolent one...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q7 Passage:Economist: Owing to global economic forces since 1945, our country's economy is increasingly a service economy, in which manufacturing employs an ever smaller fraction of the workforce. Hence, we have engaged in less and less international trade. Stem:Which one of the following, if true,...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q8 Passage:Merton: A study showed that people who live on very busy streets have higher rates of heart disease than average. I conclude that this elevated rate of heart disease is caused by air pollution from automobile exhaust.Ortiz: Are you sure? Do we know whether people living on busy streets ha...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q9 Passage:Two lakes in the Pawpaw mountains, Quapaw and Highwater, were suffering from serious declines in their fish populations ten years ago. Since that time, there has been a moratorium on fishing at Quapaw Lake, and the fish population there has recovered. At Highwater Lake, no such moratorium...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q10 Passage:The Asian elephant walks with at least two, and sometimes three, feet on the ground at all times. Even though it can accelerate, it does so merely by taking quicker and longer steps. So the Asian elephant does not actually run. Stem:The conclusion drawn above follows logically if which o...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q11 Passage:A hardware store generally sells roughly equal numbers of Maxlast brand hammers and Styron brand hammers. Last week, all of the Maxlast hammers were put on sale and placed in a display case just inside the store entrance while the Styron hammers retained their usual price and location. S...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q12 Passage:In an experiment, two groups of mice‚ one whose diet included ginkgo extract and one that had a normal diet‚ were taught to navigate a maze. The mice whose diet included ginkgo were more likely to remember how to navigate the maze the next day than were the other mice. However, the ginkg...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q13 Passage:Some of the politicians who strongly supported free trade among Canada, the United States, and Mexico are now refusing to support publicly the idea that free trade should be extended to other Latin American countries. Stem:If the statement above is true, which one of the following must a...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q14 Passage:Principle: Any person or business knowingly aiding someone's infringement on a copyright is also guilty of copyright infringement.Application: Grandview Department Store, which features a self-service photo-printing kiosk, is guilty of copyright infringement since a customer using the ki...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q15 Passage:Journalism's purpose is to inform people about matters relevant to the choices they must make. Yet, clearly, people often buy newspapers or watch television news programs precisely because they contain sensationalistic gossip about people whom they will never meet and whose business is o...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q16 Passage:When surveyed about which party they would like to see in the legislature, 40 percent of respondents said Conservative, 20 percent said Moderate, and 40 percent said Liberal. If the survey results are reliable, we can conclude that most citizens would like to see a legislature that is ro...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q17 Passage:City leader: If our city adopts the new tourism plan, the amount of money that tourists spend here annually will increase by at least $2 billion, creating as many jobs as a new automobile manufacturing plant would. It would be reasonable for the city to spend the amount of money necessar...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q18 Passage:An article claims that many medical patients have an instinctual ability to predict sudden changes in their medical status. But the evidence given is anecdotal and should not be trusted. The case is analogous to empirically disproven reports that babies are born in disproportionately hig...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q19 Passage:Politician: Union leaders argue that increases in multinational control of manufacturing have shifted labor to nations without strong worker protections, resulting in a corresponding global decrease in workers' average wages. Given that these leaders have a vested interest in seeing wage...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q20 Passage:Professor: The number of new university students who enter as chemistry majors has not changed in the last ten years, and job prospects for graduates with chemistry degrees are better than ever. Despite this, there has been a significant decline over the past decade in the number of peop...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q21 Passage:Although the first humans came to Australia 56,000 years ago and undoubtedly brought new diseases with them, human-borne diseases probably did not cause the mass extinction of large land animals and birds that took place over the following 10,000 years. After all, more than 55 different ...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q22 Passage:A tax preparation company automatically adds the following disclaimer to every e-mail message sent to its clients: "Any tax advice in this e-mail should not be construed as advocating any violation of the provisions of the tax code." The only purpose this disclaimer could serve is to pro...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q23 Passage:Well-intentioned people sometimes attempt to resolve the marital problems of their friends. But these attempts are usually ineffectual and thereby foster resentment among all parties. Thus, even well-intentioned attempts to resolve the marital problems of friends are usually unjustified....
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q24 Passage:It has been said that authors who write in order to give pleasure cannot impart to their readers the truth of their subject matter. That claim cannot be true. If it were, one could determine the truthfulness of a book simply by looking at its sales figures. If the book were very popular,...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q25 Passage:It is likely that most of the new television programs Wilke & Wilke produce for this season will be canceled. Most of the new shows they produced last season were canceled due to insufficient viewership. Furthermore, their new shows are all police dramas, and few police dramas have been ...
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Question ID:PT76 S2 Q26 Passage:If a corporation obtains funds fraudulently, then the penalty should take into account the corporation's use of those funds during the time it held them. In such cases, the penalty should completely offset any profit the corporation made in using the funds. Stem:Which one of the followin...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q1 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q2 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q3 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q4 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q5 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q6 Passage:A detective is trying to determine the order in which a criminal recruited seven accomplices‚ Peters, Quinn, Rovero, Stanton, Tao, Villas, and White. In addition to discovering that the suspect recruited the accomplices one at a time, the detective has established the following:Stanton wa...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q7 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photographs...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q8 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photographs...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q9 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photographs...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q10 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photograph...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q11 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photograph...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q12 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photograph...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q13 Passage:In the Lifestyle, Metro, and Sports sections of tomorrow's newspaper, a total of six different photographs are to appear, exactly two photographs per section. Each of the available photographs was taken by one of three photographers: Fuentes, Gagnon, and Hue. Selection of the photograph...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q14 Passage:Exactly five students‚ Grecia, Hakeem, Joe, Katya, and Louise‚ are to work at a campus art gallery during a special exhibit that runs for exactly five days, Monday through Friday. Each day is divided into two nonoverlapping shifts‚ first and second‚ with each student working exactly two ...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q15 Passage:Exactly five students‚ Grecia, Hakeem, Joe, Katya, and Louise‚ are to work at a campus art gallery during a special exhibit that runs for exactly five days, Monday through Friday. Each day is divided into two nonoverlapping shifts‚ first and second‚ with each student working exactly two ...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q16 Passage:Exactly five students‚ Grecia, Hakeem, Joe, Katya, and Louise‚ are to work at a campus art gallery during a special exhibit that runs for exactly five days, Monday through Friday. Each day is divided into two nonoverlapping shifts‚ first and second‚ with each student working exactly two ...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q17 Passage:Exactly five students‚ Grecia, Hakeem, Joe, Katya, and Louise‚ are to work at a campus art gallery during a special exhibit that runs for exactly five days, Monday through Friday. Each day is divided into two nonoverlapping shifts‚ first and second‚ with each student working exactly two ...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q18 Passage:Exactly five students‚ Grecia, Hakeem, Joe, Katya, and Louise‚ are to work at a campus art gallery during a special exhibit that runs for exactly five days, Monday through Friday. Each day is divided into two nonoverlapping shifts‚ first and second‚ with each student working exactly two ...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q19 Passage:A publisher is planning to publish six cookbooks‚ K, L, M, N, O, and P‚ over the course of the next year. Each cookbook will be published in one of two seasons‚ fall or spring‚ subject to the following conditions:M and P cannot be published in the same season as each other.K and N must b...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q20 Passage:A publisher is planning to publish six cookbooks‚ K, L, M, N, O, and P‚ over the course of the next year. Each cookbook will be published in one of two seasons‚ fall or spring‚ subject to the following conditions:M and P cannot be published in the same season as each other.K and N must b...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q21 Passage:A publisher is planning to publish six cookbooks‚ K, L, M, N, O, and P‚ over the course of the next year. Each cookbook will be published in one of two seasons‚ fall or spring‚ subject to the following conditions:M and P cannot be published in the same season as each other.K and N must b...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q22 Passage:A publisher is planning to publish six cookbooks‚ K, L, M, N, O, and P‚ over the course of the next year. Each cookbook will be published in one of two seasons‚ fall or spring‚ subject to the following conditions:M and P cannot be published in the same season as each other.K and N must b...
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Question ID:PT76 S3 Q23 Passage:A publisher is planning to publish six cookbooks‚ K, L, M, N, O, and P‚ over the course of the next year. Each cookbook will be published in one of two seasons‚ fall or spring‚ subject to the following conditions:M and P cannot be published in the same season as each other.K and N must b...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q1 Passage:Aisha: Vadim is going to be laid off. Vadim's work as a programmer has been exemplary since joining the firm. But management has already made the decision to lay off a programmer. And this firm strictly follows a policy of laying off the most recently hired programmer in such cases. Stem:...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q2 Passage:Wanda: It is common sense that one cannot create visual art without visual stimuli in one's work area, just as a writer needs written stimuli. A stark, empty work area would hinder my creativity. This is why there are so many things in my studio.Vernon: But a writer needs to read good w...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q3 Passage:The official listing of an animal species as endangered triggers the enforcement of legal safeguards designed to protect endangered species, such as tighter animal export and trade restrictions and stronger antipoaching laws. Nevertheless, there have been many cases in which the decline i...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q4 Passage:Annette: To persuade the town council to adopt your development plan, you should take them on a trip to visit other towns that have successfully implemented plans like yours.Sefu: But I have a vested interest in their votes. If council members were to accept a trip from me, it would give ...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q5 Passage:Scholar: Recently, some religions have updated the language of their traditional texts and replaced traditional rituals with more contemporary ones. These changes have been followed by increases in attendance at places of worship affiliated with these religions. This shows that any suc...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q6 Passage:If one is to participate in the regional band, one must practice very hard or be very talented. Therefore, Lily, who is first trombonist in the regional band and is very talented, does not practice hard. Stem:The flawed reasoning in which one of the following arguments most closely resemb...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q7 Passage:Dietitian: Eating fish can lower one's cholesterol level. In a study of cholesterol levels and diet, two groups were studied. The first group ate a balanced diet including two servings of fish per week. The second group ate a very similar diet, but ate no fish. The first group showed low...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q8 Passage:Satellite navigation systems (satnavs) for cars, in which computer voices announce directions as you drive, save fuel and promote safety. Studies show that, when assigned to novel destinations, drivers using satnavs took, on average, 7 percent fewer miles per journey than drivers using pa...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q9 Passage:A manager cannot extract the best performance from employees by threatening them with termination or offering financial rewards for high productivity. Rather, employees must come to want to do a good job for its own sake. One of the best ways for a manager to achieve this is to delegate r...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q10 Passage:Richard: Because it fails to meet the fundamental requirement of art‚ that it represent‚ abstract art will eventually be seen as an aberration.Jung-Su: Although artists, like musicians, may reject literal representation, makers of abstract art choose to represent the purely formal feat...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q11 Passage:A person who knowingly brings about misfortune should be blamed for it. However, in some cases a person who unwittingly brings about misfortune should not be blamed for it. For example, a person should never be blamed for unwittingly bringing about misfortune if the person could not reas...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q12 Passage:Researcher: Research has shown that inhaling the scent of lavender has measurable physiological effects tending to reduce stress. It is known that intense stress can impair the immune system, making one more susceptible to illness. Therefore, it is likely that the incidence of illness am...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q13 Passage:Government statistics show that the real (adjusted for inflation) average income for families has risen over the last five years. Therefore, since this year the Andersen family's income is average for families, the family's real income must have increased over the last five years. Stem:T...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q14 Passage:Certain methods of creating high-quality counterfeit banknotes involve making accurate measurements of the images printed on genuine banknotes. Hence, if the production of high-quality counterfeit banknotes is to be prevented, some of the images on banknotes must be made very difficult o...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q15 Passage:Armstrong: For the treatment of a particular disease, Dr. Sullivan argues for using nutritional supplements rather than the pharmaceuticals that most doctors prescribe. But this is in his self-interest since he is paid to endorse a line of nutritional supplements. Thus, we should not use...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q16 Passage:Economist: If the economy grows stronger, employment will increase, and hence more parents will need to find day care for their young children. Unfortunately, in a stronger economy many day-care workers will quit to take better-paying jobs in other fields. Therefore, a stronger economy i...
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Question ID:PT76 S4 Q17 Passage:Ostrich farming requires far less acreage than cattle ranching requires, and ostriches reproduce much faster than cattle. Starting out in cattle ranching requires a large herd of cows, one bull, and at least two acres per cow. By contrast, two pairs of yearling ostriches and one acre of ...
PT76 S4 Q17
Question ID:PT76 S4 Q18 Passage:For several centuries there have been hairless dogs in western Mexico and in coastal Peru. It is very unlikely that a trait as rare as hairlessness emerged on two separate occasions. Since the dogs have never existed in the wild, and the vast mountainous jungle separating these two regio...
PT76 S4 Q18