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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q7 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turki...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q8 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turki...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q9 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turki...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q10 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turk...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q11 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turk...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q12 Passage:Exactly six tourists‚ Harry, Irene, Klaus, Laura, Michael, Norma‚ are to be assigned to four guides: Valois, Xerxes, Yossarian, Zalamea. Each tourist is assigned to exactly one guide, with at least one tourist assigned to each guide. Valois speaks only French. Xerxes speaks only Turk...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q13 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q14 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q15 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q16 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q17 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q18 Passage:Each of six people‚ Kim, Lina, Maricella, Oliver, Paulo, and Shigeru‚ plays exactly one of two sports‚ golf and tennis. If a sport is played by more than one of the six people, then the people who play that sport are ranked in order of ability from highest to lowest, with no ties. The f...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q19 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q20 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q21 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q22 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q23 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S3 Q24 Passage:A disc jockey will play a sequence consisting of exactly seven different songs: three ballads‚ F, G, and H‚ and four dance tunes‚ R, S, V, and X. The following conditions must be met:No dance tune can be played immediately after another dance tune.H must be played earlier in the sequen...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q1 Passage:Taxpayer: For the last ten years, Metro City's bridge-maintenance budget of $1 million annually has been a prime example of fiscal irresponsibility. In a well-run bridge program, the city would spend $15 million a year on maintenance, which would prevent severe deterioration, thus limit...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q2 Passage:Twenty professional income-tax advisors were given identical records from which to prepare an income-tax return. The advisors were not aware that they were dealing with fictitious records compiled by a financial magazine. No two of the completed tax returns agreed with each other, and o...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q3 Passage:The manager of a nuclear power plant defended the claim that the plant was safe by revealing its rate of injury for current workers: only 3.2 injuries per 200,000 hours of work, a rate less than half the national average for all industrial plants. The manager claimed that, therefore, by...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q4 Passage:Columnist: The country is presently debating legislation that, if passed, would force manufacturers to increase the number of paid vacation days for employees, to pay higher overtime wages, and to pay all day-care expenses for children of each employee. This legislation is being support...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q5 Passage:If the ivory trade continues, experts believe, the elephant will soon become extinct in Africa, because poaching is rife in many areas. A total ban on ivory trading would probably prevent the extinction. However, the country of Zimbabwe‚ which has virtually eliminated poaching within it...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q6 Passage:The male sage grouse has air sacs that, when not inflated, lie hidden beneath the grouse's neck feathers. During its spring courtship ritual, the male sage grouse inflates these air sacs and displays them to the female sage grouse. Some scientists hypothesize that this courtship ritual ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q7 Passage:Consumers will be hurt by the new lower ceilings on halibut catches. Given the law of supply and demand these restrictions are likely to result in an increase in the price of the fish. Stem:Which one of the following, if assumed, would do most to justify the claim that the price of halibu...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q8 Passage:Knowledge of an ancient language is essential for reading original ancient documents. Most ancient historical documents, however, have been translated into modern languages, so scholars of ancient history can read them for their research without learning ancient languages. Therefore, as...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q9 Passage:The Board of Trustees of the Federici Art Museum has decided to sell some works from its collection in order to raise the funds necessary to refurbish its galleries. Although this may seem like a drastic remedy, the curator has long maintained that among the paintings that the late Ms. F...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q10 Passage:The Board of Trustees of the Federici Art Museum has decided to sell some works from its collection in order to raise the funds necessary to refurbish its galleries. Although this may seem like a drastic remedy, the curator has long maintained that among the paintings that the late Ms. ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q11 Passage:Taken together, some 2,000 stocks recommended on a popular television show over the course of the past 12 years by the show's guests, most of whom are successful consultants for multibillion-dollar stock portfolios, performed less successfully than the market as a whole for this 12-year ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q12 Passage:The school principal insisted that student failures are caused by bad teaching. In a relatively short time failing grades disappeared from the school. The principal happily recognized this as evidence that the teaching had improved at the school. Stem:The flawed pattern of reasoning in t...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q13 Passage:Unlike other primroses, self-pollinating primroses do not need to rely on insects for pollination. In many years insect pollinators are scarce, and in those years a typical non-self-pollinating primrose produces fewer seeds than does a typical self-pollinating primrose. In other years,...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q14 Passage:We have a moral obligation not to destroy books, even if they belong to us. The reason is quite simple: If preserved, books will almost certainly contribute to the intellectual and emotional enrichment of future generations. Stem:Which one of the following most accurately expresses the ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q15 Passage:The southern half of a certain region of the earth was covered entirely by water during the Cretaceous period, the last 75 million years of the Mesozoic era, the era when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Dinosaurs lived only on land. Thus, plesiosaurs‚ swimming reptiles that lived during the ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q16 Passage:Essayist: Wisdom and intelligence are desirable qualities. However, being intelligent does not imply that one is wise, nor does being wise imply that one is intelligent. In my own experience, the people I meet have one or the other of these qualities but not both. Stem:If the essayist's ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q17 Passage:Concerned citizen:The mayor, an outspoken critic of the proposed restoration of city hall, is right when he notes that the building is outdated, but that the restoration would be expensive at a time when the budget is already tight. We cannot afford such a luxury item in this time of fin...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q18 Passage:Obviously, we cannot in any real sense mistreat plants. Plants do not have nervous systems, and having a nervous system is necessary to experience pain. Stem:The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:Any organism that...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q19 Passage:Inez: In these poor economic times, people want to be sure they are getting good value for their money. I predict people would be more willing to buy antiques at our fair if we first have the objects inspected by professional appraisers who would remove any objects of questionable auth...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q20 Passage:In some ill-considered popularizations of interesting current research, it is argued that higher apes have the capacity for language but have never put it to use‚ a remarkable biological miracle, given the enormous selectional advantage of even minimal linguistic skills. It is rather lik...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q21 Passage:Sarah: Some schools seek to foster a habit of volunteering in their students by requiring them to perform community service. But since a person who has been forced to do something has not really volunteered and since the habit of volunteering cannot be said to have been fostered in a p...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q22 Passage:Sarah: Some schools seek to foster a habit of volunteering in their students by requiring them to perform community service. But since a person who has been forced to do something has not really volunteered and since the habit of volunteering cannot be said to have been fostered in a p...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q23 Passage:Only computer scientists understand the architecture of personal computers, and only those who understand the architecture of personal computers appreciate the advances in technology made in the last decade. It follows that only those who appreciate these advances are computer scientists...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q24 Passage:Sociologist: Research shows, contrary to popular opinion, that, all other things being equal, most people who have pets are less happy than most people who do not. Therefore, any person who wants to be as happy as possible would do well to consider not having a pet. Stem:Which one of th...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q25 Passage:The dwarf masked owl, a rare migratory bird of prey, normally makes its winter home on the Baja peninsula, where it nests in the spiny cactus. In fact, there are no other suitable nesting sites for the dwarf masked owl on the Baja peninsula. But a blight last spring destroyed all of the ...
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Question ID:PT25 S4 Q26 Passage:At night, a flock of crows will generally perch close together in a small place‚ often a piece of wooded land‚ called a roost. Each morning, the crows leave the roost and fan out in small groups to hunt and scavenge the surrounding area. For most flocks, the crows' hunting extends as f...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q1 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q2 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q3 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q4 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q5 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q6 Passage:To many developers of technologies that affect public health or the environment, "risk communication" means persuading the public that the potential risks of such technologies are small and should be ignored. Those who communicate risks in this way seem to believe that lay people do not u...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q7 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operation...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q8 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operation...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q9 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operation...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q10 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operatio...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q11 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operatio...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q12 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operatio...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q13 Passage:In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operatio...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q14 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q15 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q16 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q17 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q18 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q19 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q20 Passage:In recent years, scholars have begun to use social science tools to analyze court opinions. These scholars have justifiably criticized traditional legal research for its focus on a few cases that may not be representative and its fascination with arcane matters that do not affect real pe...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q21 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q22 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q23 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q24 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q25 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q26 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S1 Q27 Passage:A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives of its creator are decisive, and the merit of the object itself is a separate issue. The question mark in the title of Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception reveals the study's broader concerns. Indeed, it might equal...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q1 Passage:Press release: A comprehensive review evaluating the medical studies done up to the present time has found no reason to think that drinking coffee in normal amounts harms the coffee-drinker's heart. So coffee drinkers can relax and enjoy their beverage‚ it is safe to drink coffee. Stem:...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q2 Passage:All people prefer colors that they can distinguish easily to colors that they have difficulty distinguishing. Infants can easily distinguish bright colors but, unlike adults, have difficulty distinguishing subtle shades. A brightly colored toy for infants sells better than the same toy ...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q3 Passage:A group of unusual meteorites was found in Shergotty, India. Their structure indicates that they originated on one of the geologically active planets, Mercury, Venus, or Mars. Because of Mercury's proximity to the Sun, any material dislodged from that planet's surface would have been ca...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q4 Passage:Because quitting smoking is very stressful and leads to weight gain, it is difficult to do. The key to quitting, however, may be as simple as replacing an unhealthy activity with a healthy one. In one study, half of those attempting to quit were assigned to a smoking-cessation program al...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q5 Passage:Altogether, the students in Ms. Tarnowski's Milton Elementary School class collected more aluminum cans than did the students in any of the school's other classes. Therefore, the Milton student who collected the most aluminum cans was in Ms. Tarnowski's class. Stem:Which one of the follo...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q6 Passage:Several excellent candidates have been proposed for the presidency of United Wire, and each candidate would bring to the job different talents and experience. If the others are compared with Jones, however, it will be apparent that none of them has her unique set of qualifications. Jones...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q7 Passage:A neighborhood group plans to protest the closing of the neighborhood's only recreation center on the grounds that to do so would leave the neighborhood without local access to a recreation center. "Our neighborhood already has the most residents per center of any neighborhood in the city...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q8 Passage:Sociologist: The claim that there is a large number of violent crimes in our society is false, for this claim is based upon the large number of stories in newspapers about violent crimes. But since violent crimes are very rare occurrences, newspapers are likely to print stories about th...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q9 Passage:Historian: Anyone who thinks that the terrors of the ancient regime of Q were exclusively the work of fanatics is overlooking a basic truth: the regime was made up primarily of ordinary people enthusiastically seeking paradise. The regime executed many people in pursuit of its goal; but...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q10 Passage:Economist: The economy seems to be heading out of recession. Recent figures show that consumers are buying more durable goods than before, indicating that they expect economic growth in the near future. Stem:That consumers are buying more durable goods than before figures in the economi...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q11 Passage:Not surprisingly, there are no professors under the age of eighteen. And, as is well known, no one under eighteen can vote legally. Finally, some brilliant people are professors, some are legal voters, and some are under eighteen. Stem:If the statements above are true, then on the basis ...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q12 Passage:For years scientists have been scanning the skies in the hope of finding life on other planets. But in spite of the ever-increasing sophistication of the equipment they employ, some of it costing hundreds of millions of dollars, not the first shred of evidence of such life has been forth...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q13 Passage:Carl's Coffee Emporium stocks only two decaffeinated coffees: French Roast and Mocha Java. Yusef only serves decaffeinated coffee, and the coffee he served after dinner last night was far too smooth and mellow to have been French Roast. So, if Yusef still gets all his coffee from Carl...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q14 Passage:Steven: The allowable blood alcohol level for drivers should be cut in half. With this reduced limit, social drinkers will be deterred from drinking and driving, resulting in significantly increased highway safety.Miguel: No, lowering the current allowable blood alcohol level would ha...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q15 Passage:The authors of a recent article examined warnings of an impending wave of extinctions of animal species within the next 100 years. These authors say that no evidence exists to support the idea that the rate of extinction of animal species is now accelerating. They are wrong, however. ...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q16 Passage:The authors of a recent article examined warnings of an impending wave of extinctions of animal species within the next 100 years. These authors say that no evidence exists to support the idea that the rate of extinction of animal species is now accelerating. They are wrong, however. ...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q17 Passage:After the Second World War, the charter of the newly formed United Nations established an eleven-member Security Council and charged it with taking collective action in response to threats to world peace. The charter further provided that the five nations that were then the major powers...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q18 Passage:Environmental scientist: It is true that over the past ten years, there has been a sixfold increase in government funding for the preservation of wetlands, while the total area of wetlands needing such preservation has increased only twofold (although this area was already large ten yea...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q19 Passage:In Australia the population that is of driving age has grown larger over the last five years, but the annual number of traffic fatalities has declined. This leads to the conclusion that, overall, the driving-age population of Australia consists of more skillful drivers now than five year...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q20 Passage:Anthropological studies indicate that distinct cultures differ in their moral codes. Thus, as long as there are distinct cultures, there are no values shared across cultures. Stem:Each of the following, if true, would weaken the argument EXCEPT: Correct Answer Choice:BChoice A:Anthropolo...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q21 Passage:Newspaper editor: Law enforcement experts, as well as most citizens, have finally come to recognize that legal prohibitions against gambling all share a common flaw: no matter how diligent the effort, the laws are impossible to enforce. Ethical qualms notwithstanding, when a law fails ...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q22 Passage:Copernicus's astronomical system is superior to Ptolemy's and was so at the time it was proposed, even though at that time all observational evidence was equally consistent with both theories. Ptolemy believed that the stars revolved around the earth at great speeds. This struck Copernic...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q23 Passage:Essayist: The existence of a moral order in the universe‚ i.e., an order in which bad is always eventually punished and good rewarded‚ depends upon human souls being immortal. In some cultures this moral order is regarded as the result of a karma that controls how one is reincarnated, in...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q24 Passage:No mathematical proposition can be proven true by observation. It follows that it is impossible to know any mathematical proposition to be true. Stem:The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? Correct Answer Choice:EChoice A:Only propositions that can be p...
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Question ID:PT24 S2 Q25 Passage:The publisher of a best-selling self-help book had, in some promotional material, claimed that it showed readers how to become exceptionally successful. Of course, everyone knows that no book can deliver to the many what, by definition, must remain limited to the few: exceptional succe...
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Question ID:PT24 S3 Q1 Passage:Francis: Failure to become properly registered to vote preventsone-third of the voting-age citizens of Lagonia from voting. If local election boards made the excessively cumbersome registration process easier, more people would register and vote.Sharon: The high number of citizens not ...
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Question ID:PT24 S3 Q2 Passage:Advertisement: Anyone who thinks moisturizers are not important for beautiful skin should consider what happens to the earth, the skin of the world, in times of drought. Without regular infusions of moisture the ground becomes lined and cracked and its lush loveliness fades away. Thus ...
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Question ID:PT24 S3 Q3 Passage:M: The Greek alphabet must have been invented by some individual who knew the Phoenician writing system and who wanted to have some way of recording Homeric epics and thereby preserving expressions of a highly developed tradition of oral poetry.P: Your hypothesis is laughable! What wou...
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Question ID:PT24 S3 Q4 Passage:M: The Greek alphabet must have been invented by some individual who knew the Phoenician writing system and who wanted to have some way of recording Homeric epics and thereby preserving expressions of a highly developed tradition of oral poetry.P: Your hypothesis is laughable! What wou...
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