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Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year. This year the plantings are being seriously damaged by bollworms. Bollworms, however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the...
- by ddg
Thu Aug 27, 2015 7:41 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: OG V2 - Qs #70 : Plantings of cotton bioengineered to
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3259
The U.S. Department of Agriculture divides the North American continent into “hardiness zones.� These zones are based on the average winter temperature and are used to determine what types of plants will likely survive in a given area. Zone 1 represents the coldest average winter temperature an...
- by ddg
Thu Aug 27, 2015 7:11 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Hardiness Zones - Must Be True Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1792
B is clearly the correct answer here 
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In times of stress, Fashion is always outrageous 
- by ddg
Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:21 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR - Manhattan!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2412
According to the Tristate Transportation Authority, making certain improvements to the main commuter rail line would increase ridership dramatically. The authority plans to finance these improvements over the course of five years by raising automobile tolls on the two highway bridges along the rout...
- by ddg
Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:17 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: According to the Tristate Transportation Authority
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3865
Oh so, women tend to live longer - taken as a fact. And also women volunteer more than men.
Oh and thank you!! 
- by ddg
Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:27 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Volunteering / Longitivity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1915
Hi :) I can't seem to understand how A seems to disconnect Volunteering from Longetivity :-o Women are more likely to do volunteer work than men were ---> Women volunteer more Women tend to live longer than men do ---> doesn't this suggest that women volunteer more than men and hence tend to live lo...
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:23 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Volunteering / Longitivity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1915
Analyst: The pace of technological development brings a constant stream of new devices to the market, and many of them enjoy commercial success. But announcing new technology too soon after the introduction of a successful device can backfire. Once consumers hear about the new device, they may stop...
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:05 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: The pace of technological development
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5061
Thank you so much Brent!!
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In times of stress, Fashion is always outrageous
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:43 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Necessary Assumption
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2194
Any help/guidance on how to approach the following would be appreciated. In casual conversation, people experience little psychological discomfort in admitting that they have some particular character flaw if and only if they consider trivial the flaw to which they admit. Therefore, if in casual co...
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 6:29 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Necessary Assumption
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2194
Scientist: All other things being equal, the intensity of heat increases as the distance from the heat source decreases. Knowing this, most people conclude that the Earth’s seasons are caused by the Earth’s changing distance from the sun . In other words, winter occurs when the Earth is far fro...
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 6:05 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: heat
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2053
In polluted environments, dolphins gradually accumulated toxins in their body fat, and the larger the dolphin the more accumulated toxin it can tolerate. Nearly 80 percent of the toxins a female dolphin has accumulated pass into the fat-rich milk her nursing calf ingests. Therefore, the unusually h...
- by ddg
Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:36 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Dolphins
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16280
Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion. (A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged (B) Except for a concert performance with th...
- by ddg
Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:38 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Except for a concert performance that the composer himself
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3973
The German chancellor and dictator, Adolf Hitler, whom historians have noted had a hypnotic effect on large audiences, once debarred from public speaking, so he had to appoint Gregor Strasser to advance his political ambitions. A: The German chancellor and dictator, Adolf Hitler, whom historians ha...
- by ddg
Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:27 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: The German chancellor and dictator, Adolf Hitler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2764
- by ddg
Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:27 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: As the US increased the production of natural gas
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1898
Orangutan, a species of Pondigae, is an ape with long reddish hair that comes from Borneo and Sumatra and is able to walk upright in trees by using two arms to keep balance. Since the ape, human, and other primates have the same ancestors called Ampipithecus, we can reach the conclusion that, inste...
- by ddg
Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:04 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Orangutan--an interesting question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2108