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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q4 Passage:At a benefit dinner, a community theater's seven sponsors‚ K, L, M, P, Q, V, and Z‚ will be seated at three tables‚ 1, 2, and 3. Of the sponsors, only K, L, and M will receive honors, and only M, P, and Q will give a speech. The sponsors' seating assignments must conform to the followin...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q5 Passage:At a benefit dinner, a community theater's seven sponsors‚ K, L, M, P, Q, V, and Z‚ will be seated at three tables‚ 1, 2, and 3. Of the sponsors, only K, L, and M will receive honors, and only M, P, and Q will give a speech. The sponsors' seating assignments must conform to the followin...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q6 Passage:At a benefit dinner, a community theater's seven sponsors‚ K, L, M, P, Q, V, and Z‚ will be seated at three tables‚ 1, 2, and 3. Of the sponsors, only K, L, and M will receive honors, and only M, P, and Q will give a speech. The sponsors' seating assignments must conform to the followin...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q7 Passage:At a benefit dinner, a community theater's seven sponsors‚ K, L, M, P, Q, V, and Z‚ will be seated at three tables‚ 1, 2, and 3. Of the sponsors, only K, L, and M will receive honors, and only M, P, and Q will give a speech. The sponsors' seating assignments must conform to the followin...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q8 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists ...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q9 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists ...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q10 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q11 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q12 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q13 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q14 Passage:Exactly four medical training sessions‚ M, O, R, and S‚ will be scheduled for four consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 4‚ one session each day. Six professionals‚ three nurses and three psychologists‚ will teach the sessions. The nurses are Fine, Johnson, and Leopold; the psychologists...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q15 Passage:Six paintings hang next to each other as shown below:paintings column 1paintings column 2paintings column 3123456Each of the paintings is an oil or else a watercolor.Each oil is directly beside, directly above, or directly below another oil.Each watercolor is directly beside, directly ab...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q16 Passage:Six paintings hang next to each other as shown below:paintings column 1paintings column 2paintings column 3123456Each of the paintings is an oil or else a watercolor.Each oil is directly beside, directly above, or directly below another oil.Each watercolor is directly beside, directly ab...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q17 Passage:Six paintings hang next to each other as shown below:paintings column 1paintings column 2paintings column 3123456Each of the paintings is an oil or else a watercolor.Each oil is directly beside, directly above, or directly below another oil.Each watercolor is directly beside, directly ab...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q18 Passage:Six paintings hang next to each other as shown below:paintings column 1paintings column 2paintings column 3123456Each of the paintings is an oil or else a watercolor.Each oil is directly beside, directly above, or directly below another oil.Each watercolor is directly beside, directly ab...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q19 Passage:Six paintings hang next to each other as shown below:paintings column 1paintings column 2paintings column 3123456Each of the paintings is an oil or else a watercolor.Each oil is directly beside, directly above, or directly below another oil.Each watercolor is directly beside, directly ab...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q20 Passage:Exactly six of seven jugglers‚ G, H, K, L, N, P, and Q‚ are each assigned to exactly one of three positions‚ front, middle, and rear‚ on one of two teams‚ team 1 and team 2. For each team, exactly one juggler must be assigned to each position according to the following conditions:If eit...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q21 Passage:Exactly six of seven jugglers‚ G, H, K, L, N, P, and Q‚ are each assigned to exactly one of three positions‚ front, middle, and rear‚ on one of two teams‚ team 1 and team 2. For each team, exactly one juggler must be assigned to each position according to the following conditions:If eit...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q22 Passage:Exactly six of seven jugglers‚ G, H, K, L, N, P, and Q‚ are each assigned to exactly one of three positions‚ front, middle, and rear‚ on one of two teams‚ team 1 and team 2. For each team, exactly one juggler must be assigned to each position according to the following conditions:If eit...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q23 Passage:Exactly six of seven jugglers‚ G, H, K, L, N, P, and Q‚ are each assigned to exactly one of three positions‚ front, middle, and rear‚ on one of two teams‚ team 1 and team 2. For each team, exactly one juggler must be assigned to each position according to the following conditions:If eit...
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Question ID:PT22 S3 Q24 Passage:Exactly six of seven jugglers‚ G, H, K, L, N, P, and Q‚ are each assigned to exactly one of three positions‚ front, middle, and rear‚ on one of two teams‚ team 1 and team 2. For each team, exactly one juggler must be assigned to each position according to the following conditions:If eit...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q1 Passage:Advertisement: Among popular automobiles, Sturdimades stand apart. Around the world, hundreds of longtime Sturdimade owners have signed up for Sturdimade's "long distance" club, members of which must have a Sturdimade they have driven for a total of at least 100,000 miles or 160,000 kil...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q2 Passage:Faced with a financial crisis, Upland University's board of trustees reduced the budget for the university's computer center from last year's $4 million to $1.5 million for the coming year. However, the center cannot operate on less than $2.5 million. Since the board cannot divert funds...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q3 Passage:Muriel: I admire Favilla's novels, but she does not deserve to be considered a great writer. The point is that, no matter how distinctive her style may be, her subject matter is simply not varied enough.John: I think you are wrong to use that criterion. A great writer does not need an...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q4 Passage:Muriel: I admire Favilla's novels, but she does not deserve to be considered a great writer. The point is that, no matter how distinctive her style may be, her subject matter is simply not varied enough.John: I think you are wrong to use that criterion. A great writer does not need an...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q5 Passage:Astronaut: Any moon, by definition, orbits some planet in a solar system. So, the moons in solar system S4 all orbit the planet Alpha. Stem:The astronaut's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed? Correct Answer Choice:CChoice A:There is only one moon in S4....
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q6 Passage:A worker for a power company trims the branches of trees that overhang power lines as a prevention against damage to the lines anticipated because of the impending stormy season. The worker reasons that there will be no need for her to trim the overhanging branches of a certain tree beca...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q7 Passage:Currently, the city of Grimchester is liable for any injury incurred because of a city sidewalk in need of repair or maintenance. However, Grimchester's sidewalks are so extensive that it is impossible to hire enough employees to locate and eliminate every potential danger in its sidewal...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q8 Passage:Early in the development of a new product line, the critical resource is talent. New marketing ventures require a degree of managerial skill disproportionate to their short-term revenue prospects. Usually, however, talented managers are assigned only to established high-revenue product ...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q9 Passage:Television news coverage gives viewers a sense of direct involvement with current events but does not provide the depth of coverage needed for the significance of those events to be appreciated. Newspapers, on the other hand, provide depth of coverage but no sense of direct involvement. ...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q10 Passage:Critic: Some writers have questioned Stalin's sanity during his last years. They typically characterized his vindictiveness and secrecy as "paranoia" and "morbid suspiciousness," the latter almost a standard term applied by the Soviet writers under glasnost to explain this extraordinary...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q11 Passage:Even though apes are the only nonhuman creatures able to learn human language, no ape has ever used its human language skills to ask such philosophical questions as, "How am I different from all other creatures?" Therefore, philosophical thought is unique to humans. Stem:The conclusion ...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q12 Passage:Most adults in country X consume an increasing amount of fat as they grow older. However, for nearly all adults in country X, the percentage of fat in a person's diet stays the same throughout adult life. Stem:The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the followi...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q13 Passage:Politician: The bill that makes using car phones while driving illegal should be adopted. My support of this bill is motivated by a concern for public safety. Using a car phone seriously distracts the driver, which in turn poses a threat to safe driving. People would be deterred from us...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q14 Passage:When soil is plowed in the spring, pigweed seeds that have been buried in the soil all winter are churned up to the surface and redeposited just under the surface. The brief exposure of the seeds to sunlight stimulates receptors, which have become highly sensitive to sunlight during the...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q15 Passage:In 1992, there were over 250 rescues of mountain climbers, costing the government almost 3 million dollars. More than 25 people died in climbing mishaps that year. Many new climbers enter the sport each year. Members of a task force have proposed a bonding arrangement requiring all climb...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q16 Passage:The familiar slogan "survival of the fittest" is popularly used to express the claim, often mistakenly attributed to evolutionary biologists, that the fittest are most likely to survive. However, biologists use the term "fittest" to mean "most likely to survive," so the slogan is merely...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q17 Passage:Council member: The preservation of individual property rights is of the utmost importance to the city council. Yet, in this city, property owners are restricted to little more than cutting grass and weeding. Anything more extensive, such as remodeling, is prohibited by our zoning laws....
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q18 Passage:Coach: Our team has often been criticized for our enthusiasm in response to both our successes and our opponents' failures. But this behavior is hardly unprofessional, as our critics have claimed. On the contrary, if one looks at the professionals in this sport, one will find that the...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q19 Passage:Speaker: Contemporary business firms need to recognize that avoiding social responsibility leads to the gradual erosion of power. This is Davis and Blomstrom's Iron Law of Responsibility: "In the long run, those who do not use power in a manner which society considers responsible will t...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q20 Passage:It would be wrong to conclude that a person has a Streptococcus infection if there is no other evidence than the fact that Streptococcus bacilli are present in the person's throat; after all, infection does not occur unless the host is physically run down. Stem:The reasoning in which one...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q21 Passage:Terry: Some actions considered to be bad by our society have favorable consequences. But an action is good only if it has favorable consequences. So, some actions considered to be bad by our society are actually good.Pat: I agree with your conclusion, but not with the reasons you give...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q22 Passage:Dinosaur expert: Some paleontologists have claimed that birds are descendants of a group of dinosaurs called dromeosaurs. They appeal to the fossil record, which indicates that dromeosaurs have characteristics more similar to birds than do most dinosaurs. But there is a fatal flaw in th...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q23 Passage:Party spokesperson: The opposition party's proposal to stimulate economic activity in the province by refunding $600 million in provincial taxes to taxpayers, who could be expected to spend the money, envisions an illusory benefit. Since the province's budget is required to be in balan...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q24 Passage:Party spokesperson: The opposition party's proposal to stimulate economic activity in the province by refunding $600 million in provincial taxes to taxpayers, who could be expected to spend the money, envisions an illusory benefit. Since the province's budget is required to be in balan...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q25 Passage:Essayist: Every contract negotiator has been lied to by someone or other, and whoever lies to anyone is practicing deception. But, of course, anyone who has been lied to has also lied to someone or other. Stem:If the essayist's statements are true, which one of the following must also be...
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Question ID:PT22 S4 Q26 Passage:A member of the British Parliament is reputed to have said, "The first purpose of good social reform is to increase the sum total of human happiness. So, any reform which makes somebody happy is achieving its purpose. Since the reform I propose would make my constituents happy, it is a...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q1 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
PT21 S1 Q1
Question ID:PT21 S1 Q2 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q3 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q4 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q5 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q6 Passage:Seven students—fourth-year students Kim and Lee; third-year students Pat and Robin; and second-year students Sandy, Terry, and Val—and only those seven, are being assigned to rooms of equal size in a dormitory. Each room assigned must have either one, or two, or three students assigned to...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q7 Passage:A worker will insert colored light bulbs into a billboard equipped with exactly three light sockets, which are labeled lights 1, 2, and 3. The worker has three green bulbs, three purple bulbs, and three yellow bulbs. Selection of bulbs for the sockets is governed by the following conditio...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q8 Passage:A worker will insert colored light bulbs into a billboard equipped with exactly three light sockets, which are labeled lights 1, 2, and 3. The worker has three green bulbs, three purple bulbs, and three yellow bulbs. Selection of bulbs for the sockets is governed by the following conditio...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q9 Passage:A worker will insert colored light bulbs into a billboard equipped with exactly three light sockets, which are labeled lights 1, 2, and 3. The worker has three green bulbs, three purple bulbs, and three yellow bulbs. Selection of bulbs for the sockets is governed by the following conditio...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q10 Passage:A worker will insert colored light bulbs into a billboard equipped with exactly three light sockets, which are labeled lights 1, 2, and 3. The worker has three green bulbs, three purple bulbs, and three yellow bulbs. Selection of bulbs for the sockets is governed by the following conditi...
PT21 S1 Q10
Question ID:PT21 S1 Q11 Passage:A worker will insert colored light bulbs into a billboard equipped with exactly three light sockets, which are labeled lights 1, 2, and 3. The worker has three green bulbs, three purple bulbs, and three yellow bulbs. Selection of bulbs for the sockets is governed by the following conditi...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q12 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
PT21 S1 Q12
Question ID:PT21 S1 Q13 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q14 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q15 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
PT21 S1 Q15
Question ID:PT21 S1 Q16 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q17 Passage:An attorney is scheduling interviews with witnesses for a given week, Monday through Saturday. Two full consecutive days of the week must be reserved for interviewing hostile witnesses. In addition, nonhostile witnesses Q, R, U, X, Y, and Z will each be interviewed exactly once for a ful...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q18 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q19 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
PT21 S1 Q19
Question ID:PT21 S1 Q20 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q21 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q22 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q23 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S1 Q24 Passage:During a four-week period, each of seven previously unadvertised products—G, H, J, K, L, M, and O—will be advertised. A different pair of these products will be advertised each week. Exactly one of the products will be a member of two of these four pairs. The following constraints must b...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q1 Passage:When politicians resort to personal attacks, many editorialists criticize these attacks but most voters pay them scant attention. Everyone knows such attacks will end after election day, and politicians can be excused for mudslinging. Political commentators, however, cannot be. Political ...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q2 Passage:Throughout the Popoya Islands community pressure is exerted on people who win the national lottery to share their good fortune with their neighbors. When people living in rural areas win the lottery they invariably throw elaborate neighborhood feasts, often wiping out all of their lottery...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q3 Passage:A new medication for migraine seems effective, but there is concern that the medication might exacerbate heart disease. If patients with heart disease take the medication under careful medical supervision, however, harmful side effects can definitely be averted. The concern about those si...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q4 Passage:The highest-ranking detectives in the city’s police department are also the most adept at solving crimes. Yet in each of the past ten years, the average success rate for the city’s highest-ranking detectives in solving criminal cases has been no higher than the average success rate for it...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q5 Passage:Irrigation runoff from neighboring farms may well have increased the concentration of phosphorus in the local swamp above previous levels, but the claim that the increase in phosphorus is harming the swamp’s native aquatic wildlife is false; the phosphorus concentration in the swamp is ac...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q6 Passage:Copyright laws protect the rights of writers to profits earned from their writings, whereas patent laws protect inventors’ rights to profits earned from their inventions. In Jawade, when computer-software writers demanded that their rights to profit be protected, the courts determined tha...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q7 Passage:Brownlea’s post office must be replaced with a larger one. The present one cannot be expanded. Land near the present location in the center of town is more expensive than land on the outskirts of town. Since the cost of acquiring a site is a significant part of the total construction cost...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q8 Passage:In the past, the railroads in Ostronia were run as regional monopolies and operated with little regard for what customers wanted. In recent years, with improvements to the Ostronian national highway network, the railroad companies have faced heavy competition from long-distance trucking c...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q9 Passage:Although Damon had ample time earlier in the month to complete the paper he is scheduled to present at a professional conference tomorrow morning, he repeatedly put off doing it. Damon could still get the paper ready in time, but only if he works on it all evening without interruption. Ho...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q10 Passage:The increase in the price of jet fuel is due to a sharp decrease over the past year in the supply of jet fuel available relative to demand. Nonetheless, the amount of jet fuel available for sale is larger today than it was last year. Stem:If the statements above are true, which one of th...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q11 Passage:Alan: Government subsidies have been proposed in Cariana to encourage farmers in Rochelle, the country’s principal agricultural region, to implement certain new farming techniques. Unless these techniques are implemented, erosion of productive topsoil cannot be controlled. Unfortunately,...
PT21 S2 Q11
Question ID:PT21 S2 Q12 Passage:Alan: Government subsidies have been proposed in Cariana to encourage farmers in Rochelle, the country’s principal agricultural region, to implement certain new farming techniques. Unless these techniques are implemented, erosion of productive topsoil cannot be controlled. Unfortunately,...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q13 Passage:Astronomers have long thought that the irregularity in the orbit of the planet Neptune was adequately explained by the gravitational pull exerted on Neptune by the planet Pluto. The most recent observations of Pluto, however, indicate that this planet is much too small to exert the amoun...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q14 Passage:In most corporations the salaries of executives are set by a group from the corporation’s board of directors. Since the board’s primary mission is to safeguard the economic health of the corporation rather than to make its executives rich, this way of setting executives’ salaries is expe...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q15 Passage:In most corporations the salaries of executives are set by a group from the corporation’s board of directors. Since the board’s primary mission is to safeguard the economic health of the corporation rather than to make its executives rich, this way of setting executives’ salaries is expe...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q16 Passage:Consumer advocate: One advertisement that is deceptive, and thus morally wrong, states that “gram for gram, the refined sugar used in our chocolate pies is no more fattening than the sugars found in fruits and vegetables.” This is like trying to persuade someone that chocolate pies are n...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q17 Passage:Members of the Amazonian Akabe people commonly take an early-morning drink of a tea made from the leaves of a forest plant. Although they greatly enjoy this drink, at dawn they drink it only in small amounts. Anthropologists hypothesize that since this tea is extraordinarily high in caff...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q18 Passage:All of the cargo ships of the Blue Star Line are over 100 meters long, and all of its passenger ships are under 100 meters long. Most of the ships of the Blue Star Line were built before 1980. All of the passenger and cargo ships of the Gold Star line were built after 1980, and all are u...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q19 Passage:Spectroscopic analysis has revealed the existence of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide on the surface of Pluto. Such ices have a tendency to vaporize, producing an atmosphere. Since the proportion of any gas in such an atmosphere depends directly on how readily the correspond...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q20 Passage:Ann will either take a leave of absence from Technocomp and return in a year or else she will quit her job there; but she would not do either one unless she were offered a one-year teaching fellowship at a prestigious university. Technocomp will allow her to take a leave of absence if it...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q21 Passage:If a mechanical aerator is installed in a fish pool, the water in the pool can be properly aerated. So, since John’s fish pool does not have a mechanical aerator, it must be that his pool is not properly aerated. Without properly aerated water, fish cannot thrive. Therefore, any fish in ...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q22 Passage:Antinuclear activist: The closing of the nuclear power plant is a victory for the antinuclear cause. It also represents a belated acknowledgment by the power industry that they cannot operate such plants safely.Nuclear power plant manager: It represents no such thing. The availability of...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q23 Passage:Antinuclear activist: The closing of the nuclear power plant is a victory for the antinuclear cause. It also represents a belated acknowledgment by the power industry that they cannot operate such plants safely.Nuclear power plant manager: It represents no such thing. The availability of...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q24 Passage:Statistician: Changes in the Sun’s luminosity correlate exceedingly well with average land temperatures on Earth. Clearly—and contrary to accepted opinion among meteorologists—the Sun’s luminosity essentially controls land temperatures on Earth.Meteorologist: I disagree. Any professional...
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Question ID:PT21 S2 Q25 Passage:Statistician: Changes in the Sun’s luminosity correlate exceedingly well with average land temperatures on Earth. Clearly—and contrary to accepted opinion among meteorologists—the Sun’s luminosity essentially controls land temperatures on Earth.Meteorologist: I disagree. Any professional...
PT21 S2 Q25
Question ID:PT21 S3 Q1 Passage:Everyone sitting in the waiting room of the school’s athletic office this morning at nine o’clock had just registered for a beginners tennis clinic. John, Mary, and Teresa were all sitting in the waiting room this morning at nine o’clock. No accomplished tennis player would register for a...
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Question ID:PT21 S3 Q2 Passage:Most people who ride bicycles for pleasure do not ride until the warm weather of spring and summery arrives. Yet it is probably more effective to advertise bicycles earlier in the year. Most bicycles are purchased in the spring, but once shoppers are ready to shop for a bicycle, they usua...
PT21 S3 Q2
Question ID:PT21 S3 Q3 Passage:During 1991 the number of people in the town of Bayburg who received municipal food assistance doubled, even though the number of people in Bayburg whose incomes were low enough to qualify for such assistance remained unchanged. Stem:Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reso...
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Question ID:PT21 S3 Q4 Passage:Campaigning for election to provincial or state office frequently requires that a candidate spend much time and energy catering to the interests of national party officials who can help the candidate to win office. The elected officials who campaign for reelection while they are in office...
PT21 S3 Q4