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Nursing home occupancy
Between 1975 and 1985, nursing-home occupancy rates averaged 87 percent of capacity, while admission rates remained constant, at an average of 95 admissions per 1,000 beds per year. Between 1985 and 1988, however, occupancy rates rose to an average of 92 percent of capacity, while admission rates de...
- by EricKryk
Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:33 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Nursing home occupancy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1286
Corporate fitness programs
The more frequently employees take time to exercise during working hours each week, the fewer sick days they take. Even employees who exercise only once a week during working hours take less sick time than those who do not exercise. Therefore, if companies started fitness programs, the absentee rate...
- by EricKryk
Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:32 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Corporate fitness programs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1341
Greek vegetarian diet
The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian – vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.
(A) and meat rarely
(B) and meat was rare
(C) with meat as rare
(D) meat a rarity
(E) with meat as a rarity
- by EricKryk
Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:30 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Greek vegetarian diet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1936
Investment officers fees
Since 1986, when the Department of Labor began to allow investment officers’ fees to be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations began paying their investment advisers a small basic fee, with a contract promising higher fees if the managers perform well. (A) investment offi...
- by EricKryk
Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:29 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Investment officers fees
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1207
Coin probability
The probability is 1/2 that a certain coin will turn up heads on any given toss. If the coin is to be tossed three times, what is the probability that on at least one of the tosses the coin will turn up tails?
A) 1/8
B) 1/2
C) 3/4
D) 7/8
E) 15/16
- by EricKryk
Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:36 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Coin probability
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6189
Managers to Workers - Ratios
In a certain company, the ratio of the number of managers to the number of production-line workers is 5 to 72. If 8 additional production-line workers were to be hired, the ratio of the number of managers to the number of production-line workers would be 5 to 74. How many managers does the company h...
- by EricKryk
Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:34 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Managers to Workers - Ratios
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4926
How children choose punishments
A group of children of various ages was read stories in which people caused harm, some of those people doing so intentionally and some accidentally. When asked about appropriate punishments for those who had caused harm, the younger children, unlike the older ones, assigned punishments that did not ...
- by EricKryk
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:57 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: How children choose punishments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1472
American steel mills
The imposition of quotas limiting imported steel will not help the big American steel mills. In fact, the quotas will help “mini-mills� flourish in the United States. Those small domestic mills will take more business from the big American steel mills than would have been taken by the foreign st...
- by EricKryk
Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:55 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: American steel mills
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1364
Protein in wheat and rice
In addition to having more protein than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet. (A) the protein in rice is higher quality than that in (B) rice has protein of higher quality than that in (C) the protein in rice i...
- by EricKryk
Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Protein in wheat and rice
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1690
Formulas for cash flow
Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small businesses in the same way as they do to established big businesses, because they are growing and are seldom in equilibrium. (A) Formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to new small business...
- by EricKryk
Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Formulas for cash flow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1453
Carmen's weekly pay
Carmen currently works 30 hours per week at her part-time job. If her gross hourly wage were to increase by $1.50, how many fewer hours could she work per week and still earn the same gross weekly pay as before the increase? 1) Her gross weekly pay is currently $225 2) An increase of $1.50 would rep...
- by EricKryk
Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:31 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Carmen's weekly pay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1997
- by EricKryk
Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:29 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: is x-y odd?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1728
- by EricKryk
Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:37 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Infinite decimal loops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1849
Mouse pellets
http://snag.gy/4Cpv4.jpg The diagram above shows the various paths along which a mouse can travel from point X, where it is released, to point Y, where it is rewarded with a food pellet. How many different paths from X to Y can the mouse take if it goes directly from X to Y without retracing any po...
- by EricKryk
Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:32 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Mouse pellets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5374
Edmund Fitzgerald
The cause of the wreck of the ship Edmund Fitzgerald in a severe storm on Lake Superior is still unknown. When the sunken wreckage of the vessel was found, searchers discovered the hull in two pieces lying close together. The storm’s violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even br...
- by EricKryk
Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:48 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Edmund Fitzgerald
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2196