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Question ID:PT20 S3 Q2 Passage:Each of seven travelers‚ Norris, Oribe, Paulsen, Rosen, Semonelli, Tan, and Underwood‚ will be assigned to exactly one of nine airplane seats. The seats are numbered from 1 through 9 and arranged in rows as follows:Front row:1 2 3Middle row:4 5 6Last row:7 8 9Only seats in the same... | PT20 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q3 Passage:Each of seven travelers‚ Norris, Oribe, Paulsen, Rosen, Semonelli, Tan, and Underwood‚ will be assigned to exactly one of nine airplane seats. The seats are numbered from 1 through 9 and arranged in rows as follows:Front row:1 2 3Middle row:4 5 6Last row:7 8 9Only seats in the same... | PT20 S3 Q3 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q4 Passage:Each of seven travelers‚ Norris, Oribe, Paulsen, Rosen, Semonelli, Tan, and Underwood‚ will be assigned to exactly one of nine airplane seats. The seats are numbered from 1 through 9 and arranged in rows as follows:Front row:1 2 3Middle row:4 5 6Last row:7 8 9Only seats in the same... | PT20 S3 Q4 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q5 Passage:Each of seven travelers‚ Norris, Oribe, Paulsen, Rosen, Semonelli, Tan, and Underwood‚ will be assigned to exactly one of nine airplane seats. The seats are numbered from 1 through 9 and arranged in rows as follows:Front row:1 2 3Middle row:4 5 6Last row:7 8 9Only seats in the same... | PT20 S3 Q5 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q6 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduce... | PT20 S3 Q6 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q7 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduce... | PT20 S3 Q7 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q8 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduce... | PT20 S3 Q8 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q9 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduce... | PT20 S3 Q9 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q10 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduc... | PT20 S3 Q10 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q11 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduc... | PT20 S3 Q11 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q12 Passage:A university library budget committee must reduce exactly five of eight areas of expenditure‚ G, L, M, N, P, R, S, and W‚ in accordance with the following conditions:If both G and S are reduced, W is also reduced.If N is reduced, neither R nor S is reduced.If P is reduced, L is not reduc... | PT20 S3 Q12 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q13 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q13 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q14 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q14 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q15 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q15 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q16 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q16 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q17 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q17 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q18 Passage:A jeweler makes a single strand of beads by threading onto a string in a single direction from a clasp a series of solid-colored beads. Each bead is either green, orange, purple, red, or yellow. The resulting strand satisfies the following specifications:If a purple bead is adjacent to... | PT20 S3 Q18 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q19 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q19 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q20 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q20 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q21 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q21 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q22 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q22 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q23 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q23 |
Question ID:PT20 S3 Q24 Passage:At an evening concert, a total of six songs‚ O, P, T, X, Y, and Z‚ will be performed by three vocalists‚ George, Helen, and Leslie. The songs will be sung consecutively as solos, and each will be performed exactly once. The following constraints govern the composition of the concert pr... | PT20 S3 Q24 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q1 Passage:Critic: People today place an especially high value on respect for others; yet, in their comedy acts, many of today's most popular comedians display blatant disrespect for others. But when people fail to live up to the very ideals they hold in highest esteem, exaggeration of such failin... | PT20 S4 Q1 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q2 Passage:The law firm of Sutherlin, Pérez, and Associates is one of the most successful law firms whose primary specialization is in criminal defense cases. In fact, the firm has a better than 90 percent acquittal rate in such cases. Dalton is an attorney whose primary specialization is in divo... | PT20 S4 Q2 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q3 Passage:Opponents of allowing triple-trailer trucks to use the national highway system are wrong in claiming that these trucks are more dangerous than other commercial vehicles. In the western part of the country, in areas where triple-trailers are now permitted on some highways, for these vehic... | PT20 S4 Q3 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q4 Passage:Whittaker: There can be no such thing as the number of medical school students who drop out before their second year, because if they drop out, they never have a second year.Hudson: By your reasoning I cannot help but become rich, because there is similarly no such thing as my dying bef... | PT20 S4 Q4 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q5 Passage:A newly developed light bulb is much more cost-effective than conventional light bulbs: it costs only about 3 times what a conventional light bulb costs but it lasts up to 10 times as long as a conventional light bulb. Despite the manufacturer's intense efforts to publicize the advantag... | PT20 S4 Q5 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q6 Passage:The Rienzi, a passenger ship, sank as a result of a hole in its hull, possibly caused by sabotage. Normally, when a holed ship sinks as rapidly as the Rienzi did, water does not enter the ship quickly enough for the ship to be fully flooded when it reaches the ocean floor. Full flooding... | PT20 S4 Q6 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q7 Passage:For every 50 dogs that contract a certain disease, one will die from it. A vaccine exists that is virtually 100 percent effective in preventing this disease. Since the risk of death from complications of vaccination is one death per 5,000 vaccinations, it is therefore safer for a dog to... | PT20 S4 Q7 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q8 Passage:The symptoms of mental disorders are behavioral, cognitive, or emotional problems. Some patients with mental disorders can be effectively treated with psychotherapy. But it is now known that in some patients mental disorders result from chemical imbalances affecting the brain. Thus the... | PT20 S4 Q8 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q9 Passage:Curator: The decision to restore the cloak of the central figure in Veronese's painting from its present red to the green found underneath is fully justified. Reliable x-ray and chemical tests show that the red pigment was applied after the painting had been completed, and that the red p... | PT20 S4 Q9 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q10 Passage:Curator: The decision to restore the cloak of the central figure in Veronese's painting from its present red to the green found underneath is fully justified. Reliable x-ray and chemical tests show that the red pigment was applied after the painting had been completed, and that the red ... | PT20 S4 Q10 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q11 Passage:John works five days each week except when on vacation or during weeks in which national holidays occur. Four days a week he works in an insurance company; on Fridays he works as a blacksmith. Last week there were no holidays, and John was not on vacation. Therefore, he must have worke... | PT20 S4 Q11 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q12 Passage:After several attempts to distract his young parrot from chewing on furniture, George reluctantly took an expert's advice and gently hit the parrot's beak whenever the bird started to chew furniture. The bird stopped chewing furniture, but it is now afraid of hands and will sometimes bi... | PT20 S4 Q12 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q13 Passage:Mature white pines intercept almost all the sunlight that shines on them. They leave a deep litter that dries readily, and they grow to prodigious height so that, even when there are large gaps in a stand of such trees, little light reaches the forest floor. For this reason white pines ... | PT20 S4 Q13 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q14 Passage:Advertisement: A leading economist has determined that among people who used computers at their place of employment last year, those who also owned portable ("laptop") computers earned 25 percent more on average than those who did not. It is obvious from this that owning a laptop compu... | PT20 S4 Q14 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q15 Passage:Rhonda will see the movie tomorrow afternoon only if Paul goes to the concert in the afternoon. Paul will not go to the concert unless Ted agrees to go to the concert. However, Ted refuses to go to the concert. So Rhonda will not see the movie tomorrow afternoon. Stem:The pattern of r... | PT20 S4 Q15 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q16 Passage:Private industry is trying to attract skilled research scientists by offering them high salaries. As a result, most research scientists employed in private industry now earn 50 percent more than do comparably skilled research scientists employed by the government. So, unless government... | PT20 S4 Q16 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q17 Passage:Using fossil energy more efficiently is in the interest of the nation and the global environment, but major improvements are unlikely unless proposed government standards are implemented to eliminate products or practices that are among the least efficient in their class.Objection: Deci... | PT20 S4 Q17 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q18 Passage:Dobson: Some historians claim that the people who built a ring of stones thousands of years ago in Britain were knowledgeable about celestial events. The ground for this claim is that two of the stones determine a line pointing directly to the position of the sun at sunrise at the spri... | PT20 S4 Q18 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q19 Passage:Nearly all mail that is correctly addressed arrives at its destination within two business days of being sent. In fact, correctly addressed mail takes longer than this only when it is damaged in transit. Overall, however, most mail arrives three business days or more after being sent. ... | PT20 S4 Q19 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q20 Passage:The report released by the interior ministry states that within the past 5 years the national land-reclamation program has resulted in a 19 percent increase in the amount of arable land within the country. If these figures are accurate, the program has been a resounding success. Senato... | PT20 S4 Q20 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q21 Passage:Wirth: All efforts to identify a gene responsible for predisposing people to manic-depression have failed. In fact, nearly all researchers now agree that there is no "manic-depression gene." Therefore, if these researchers are right, any claim that some people are genetically predispo... | PT20 S4 Q21 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q22 Passage:Wirth: All efforts to identify a gene responsible for predisposing people to manic-depression have failed. In fact, nearly all researchers now agree that there is no "manic-depression gene." Therefore, if these researchers are right, any claim that some people are genetically predispo... | PT20 S4 Q22 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q23 Passage:Garbage dumps do not harm wildlife. Evidence is furnished by the Masai-Mara reserve in Kenya, where baboons that use the garbage dumps on the reserve as a food source mature faster and have more offspring than do baboons on the reserve that do not scavenge on garbage. Stem:Each of the f... | PT20 S4 Q23 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q24 Passage:Marianne is a professional chess player who hums audibly while playing her matches, thereby distracting her opponents. When ordered by chess officials to cease humming or else be disqualified from professional chess, Marianne protested the order. She argued that since she was unaware o... | PT20 S4 Q24 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q25 Passage:Marianne is a professional chess player who hums audibly while playing her matches, thereby distracting her opponents. When ordered by chess officials to cease humming or else be disqualified from professional chess, Marianne protested the order. She argued that since she was unaware o... | PT20 S4 Q25 |
Question ID:PT20 S4 Q26 Passage:Smoking in bed has long been the main cause of home fires. Despite a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the last two decades, however, there has been no comparable decline in the number of people killed in home fires. Stem:Each one of the following statements, if true over the ... | PT20 S4 Q26 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q1 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q1 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q2 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q2 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q3 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q3 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q4 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q4 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q5 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q5 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q6 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q6 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q7 Passage:During a period of six consecutive days‚ day 1 through day 6‚ each of exactly six factories‚ F, G, H, J, Q, and R‚ will be inspected. During this period, each of the factories will be inspected exactly once, one factory per day. The schedule for the inspections must conform to the follo... | PT19 S1 Q7 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q8 Passage:In a theater company, four two-day workshops‚ Lighting, Production, Rehearsals, and Staging‚ are conducted over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. The workshops are conducted in a manner consistent with the following constraints:The two days on which a given workshop is in s... | PT19 S1 Q8 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q9 Passage:In a theater company, four two-day workshops‚ Lighting, Production, Rehearsals, and Staging‚ are conducted over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. The workshops are conducted in a manner consistent with the following constraints:The two days on which a given workshop is in s... | PT19 S1 Q9 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q10 Passage:In a theater company, four two-day workshops‚ Lighting, Production, Rehearsals, and Staging‚ are conducted over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. The workshops are conducted in a manner consistent with the following constraints:The two days on which a given workshop is in ... | PT19 S1 Q10 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q11 Passage:In a theater company, four two-day workshops‚ Lighting, Production, Rehearsals, and Staging‚ are conducted over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. The workshops are conducted in a manner consistent with the following constraints:The two days on which a given workshop is in ... | PT19 S1 Q11 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q12 Passage:In a theater company, four two-day workshops‚ Lighting, Production, Rehearsals, and Staging‚ are conducted over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. The workshops are conducted in a manner consistent with the following constraints:The two days on which a given workshop is in ... | PT19 S1 Q12 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q13 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q13 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q14 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q14 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q15 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q15 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q16 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q16 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q17 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q17 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q18 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q18 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q19 Passage:Each of two boats, boat 1 and boat 2, will be assigned exactly four people. Exactly eight people, three adults‚ F, G, and H‚ and five children‚ V, W, X, Y, and Z‚ must be assigned to the boats according to the following conditions:Each boat is assigned at least one adult.If F is assigne... | PT19 S1 Q19 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q20 Passage:Each of nine students‚ Faith, Gregory, Harlan, Jennifer, Kenji, Lisa, Marcus, Nari, and Paul‚ will be assigned to exactly one of three panels: Oceans, Recycling, and Wetlands. Exactly three of the students will be assigned to each panel. The assignment of students to panels must meet ... | PT19 S1 Q20 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q21 Passage:Each of nine students‚ Faith, Gregory, Harlan, Jennifer, Kenji, Lisa, Marcus, Nari, and Paul‚ will be assigned to exactly one of three panels: Oceans, Recycling, and Wetlands. Exactly three of the students will be assigned to each panel. The assignment of students to panels must meet ... | PT19 S1 Q21 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q22 Passage:Each of nine students‚ Faith, Gregory, Harlan, Jennifer, Kenji, Lisa, Marcus, Nari, and Paul‚ will be assigned to exactly one of three panels: Oceans, Recycling, and Wetlands. Exactly three of the students will be assigned to each panel. The assignment of students to panels must meet ... | PT19 S1 Q22 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q23 Passage:Each of nine students‚ Faith, Gregory, Harlan, Jennifer, Kenji, Lisa, Marcus, Nari, and Paul‚ will be assigned to exactly one of three panels: Oceans, Recycling, and Wetlands. Exactly three of the students will be assigned to each panel. The assignment of students to panels must meet ... | PT19 S1 Q23 |
Question ID:PT19 S1 Q24 Passage:Each of nine students‚ Faith, Gregory, Harlan, Jennifer, Kenji, Lisa, Marcus, Nari, and Paul‚ will be assigned to exactly one of three panels: Oceans, Recycling, and Wetlands. Exactly three of the students will be assigned to each panel. The assignment of students to panels must meet ... | PT19 S1 Q24 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q1 Passage:Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant proposes that we reassign staff so that all employees are doing both what they like to do and what they do well. This, she says, will "increase productivity by fully exploiting our available resources." But Ace Manufactur... | PT19 S2 Q1 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q2 Passage:A large number of drivers routinely violate highway speed limits. Since driving at speeds that exceed posted limits is a significant factor in most accidents, installing devices in all cars that prevent those cars from traveling faster than the speed limit would prevent most accidents. S... | PT19 S2 Q2 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q3 Passage:In a recession, a decrease in consumer spending causes many businesses to lay off workers or even to close. Workers who lose their jobs in a recession usually cannot find new jobs. The result is an increase in the number of people who are jobless. Recovery from a recession is defined b... | PT19 S2 Q3 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q4 Passage:Scientists analyzing air bubbles that had been trapped in Antarctic ice during the Earth's last ice age found that the ice-age atmosphere had contained unusually large amounts of ferrous material and surprisingly small amounts of carbon dioxide. One scientist noted that algae absorb carb... | PT19 S2 Q4 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q5 Passage:Adults who work outside the home spend, on average, 100 minutes less time each week in preparing dinner than adults who do not work outside the home. But, contrary to expectation, comparisons show that the dinners eaten at home by the two groups of adults do not differ significantly with... | PT19 S2 Q5 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q6 Passage:Legislator: Your agency is responsible for regulating an industry shaken by severe scandals. You were given funds to hire 500 investigators to examine the scandals, but you hired no more than 400. I am forced to conclude that you purposely limited hiring in an attempt to prevent the fu... | PT19 S2 Q6 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q7 Passage:A commonly accepted myth is that left-handed people are more prone to cause accidents than are right-handed people. But this is, in fact, just a myth, as is indicated by the fact that more household accidents are caused by right-handed people than are caused by left-handed people. Stem:T... | PT19 S2 Q7 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q8 Passage:Ornithologist: The curvature of the claws of modern tree-dwelling birds enables them to perch in trees. The claws of Archeopteryx, the earliest known birdlike creature, show similar curvature that must have enabled the creature to perch on tree limbs. Therefore, Archeopteryx was probabl... | PT19 S2 Q8 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q9 Passage:Ornithologist: The curvature of the claws of modern tree-dwelling birds enables them to perch in trees. The claws of Archeopteryx, the earliest known birdlike creature, show similar curvature that must have enabled the creature to perch on tree limbs. Therefore, Archeopteryx was probabl... | PT19 S2 Q9 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q10 Passage:There are rumors that the Premier will reshuffle the cabinet this week. However, every previous reshuffle that the Premier has made was preceded by meetings between the Premier and senior cabinet members. No such meetings have occurred or are planned. Therefore the rumors are most like... | PT19 S2 Q10 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q11 Passage:Carl: Researchers who perform operations on animals for experimental purposes are legally required to complete detailed pain protocols indicating whether the animals will be at risk of pain and, if so, what steps will be taken to minimize or alleviate it. Yet when human beings undergo ... | PT19 S2 Q11 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q12 Passage:Carl: Researchers who perform operations on animals for experimental purposes are legally required to complete detailed pain protocols indicating whether the animals will be at risk of pain and, if so, what steps will be taken to minimize or alleviate it. Yet when human beings undergo ... | PT19 S2 Q12 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q13 Passage:A company with long-outstanding bills owed by its customers can assign those bills to a collection agency that pays the company a fraction of their amount and then tries to collect payment from the customers. Since these agencies pay companies only 15 percent of the total amount of the ... | PT19 S2 Q13 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q14 Passage:Herbalist: Many of my customers find that their physical coordination improves after drinking juice containing certain herbs. A few doctors assert that the herbs are potentially harmful, but doctors are always trying to maintain a monopoly over medical therapies. So there is no reason... | PT19 S2 Q14 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q15 Passage:Because of the lucrative but illegal trade in rhinoceros horns, a certain rhinoceros species has been hunted nearly to extinction. Therefore an effective way to ensure the survival of that species would be to periodically trim off the horns of all rhinoceroses, thereby eliminating the m... | PT19 S2 Q15 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q16 Passage:Motorcoach driver: Professional drivers spend much more time driving, on average, than do other people and hence are more competent drivers than are other, less experienced drivers. Therefore, the speed limit on major highways should not be reduced, because that action would have the u... | PT19 S2 Q16 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q17 Passage:People cannot devote themselves to the study of natural processes unless they have leisure, and people have leisure when resources are plentiful, not when resources are scarce. Although some anthropologists claim that agriculture, the cultivation of crops, actually began under condition... | PT19 S2 Q17 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q18 Passage:In the past decade, a decreasing percentage of money spent on treating disease X went to pay for standard methods of treatment, which are known to be effective though they are expensive and painful. An increasing percentage is being spent on nonstandard treatments, which cause little di... | PT19 S2 Q18 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q19 Passage:When an ordinary piece of steel is put under pressure, the steel compresses; that is, its volume slightly decreases. Glass, however, is a fluid, so rather than compressing, it flows when put under pressure; its volume remains unchanged. Any portion of a sheet of glass that is under sus... | PT19 S2 Q19 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q20 Passage:Anyone who insists that music videos are an art form should also agree that television gave rise to an art form, since television gave rise to music videos. Stem:The pattern of reasoning displayed in the argument above most closely parallels that displayed in which one of the following? ... | PT19 S2 Q20 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q21 Passage:Medieval Arabs had manuscripts of many ancient Greek texts, which were translated into Arabic when there was a demand for them. Medieval Arab philosophers were very interested in Aristotle's Poetics, an interest that evidently was not shared by medieval Arab poets, because a poet intere... | PT19 S2 Q21 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q22 Passage:Congenial guests and a plentiful supply of good things to eat and drink will ensure a successful dinner party. Since Sylvia has prepared more than enough to eat and drink and her guests are all congenial people, her dinner party is certain to be a success. Stem:The pattern of flawed rea... | PT19 S2 Q22 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q23 Passage:A museum director, in order to finance expensive new acquisitions, discreetly sold some paintings by major artists. All of them were paintings that the director privately considered inferior. Critics roundly condemned the sale, charging that the museum had lost first-rate pieces, there... | PT19 S2 Q23 |
Question ID:PT19 S2 Q24 Passage:The United States ranks far behind countries such as Sweden and Canada when it comes to workplace safety. In all three countries, joint labor-management committees that oversee workplace safety conditions have been very successful in reducing occupational injuries. In the United States... | PT19 S2 Q24 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q1 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q1 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q2 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q2 |
Question ID:PT19 S3 Q3 Passage:Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between... | PT19 S3 Q3 |
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