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State Tax
State tax officials, having had considerable success in persuading delinquent individuals to pay their back taxes through the incentive of reduced penalties, plan to adopt a similar approach in order to collect past due taxes from corporations. The state tax plan outlined above assumes that A) feder...
- by greenwich
Sat Aug 30, 2014 3:01 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: State Tax
- Replies: 1
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- by greenwich
Sat Aug 30, 2014 2:57 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pretzel
- Replies: 6
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Households
The percentage of households with an annual income of more than $40,000 is higher in Merton county than in any other county. However, the percentage of households with an annual income of $60,000 or more is highest in Sommer county. If the statements above are true, which of the following can proper...
- by greenwich
Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:41 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Households
- Replies: 2
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Psychoanalytic theory
According to psychoanalytic theory, people have unconscious beliefs that are kept from becoming conscious by a psychological mechanism termed "repression." Researchers investigating the nature of this mechanism observed occasions on which a patient undergoing therapy became aware of and ex...
- by greenwich
Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:35 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Psychoanalytic theory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1571
HI greenwich, For this CR prompt, we need to understand the pretzel vendor's logic, then find an answer that strengthens it. The Facts: -The new license fee for operating a pretzel stand outside the museum is expensive. -Charging typical prices, a vendor needs to sell 25 pretzels/hr. just to break ...
- by greenwich
Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:30 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pretzel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2728
Pretzel
Pretzel vendor: The new license fee for operating a pretzel stand outside the art museum is prohibitively expensive. Charging typical prices, a vendor would need to sell an average of 25 pretzels per hour to break even. At my stand outside city hall, I average only 15 per hour. Therefore, I could no...
- by greenwich
Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:45 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pretzel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2728
Holiday receipts
Holiday receipts—the total sales recorded in the fourth quarter of the year—determine the economic success or failure of many retail businesses. Camco, a retailer selling just one camera model, is an excellent example. Camco's holiday receipts, on average, account for a third of its yearly total...
- by greenwich
Sat Aug 23, 2014 2:39 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Holiday receipts
- Replies: 2
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Tobacco Advertising
Many people argue that tobacco advertising plays a crucial role in causing teenagers to start or continue smoking. In Norway, however, where there has been a ban on tobacco advertising since 1975, smoking is at least as prevalent among teen-agers as it is in countries that do not ban such advertisin...
- by greenwich
Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:36 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Tobacco Advertising
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1668
- by greenwich
Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:27 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Linda Kerber
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2251
Linda Kerber argued in the mid- 1980’s that after the American Revolution (1775-1783), an ideology of “republican Line motherhood� resulted in a surge of edu- (5) cational opportunities for women in the United States. Kerber maintained that the leaders of the new nation wanted women to be edu...
- by greenwich
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:14 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Linda Kerber
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2251
In terms of its prevalence, obesity is the leading disease in the United States. There is no universally accepted standard for obesity, defined generally as an excess of adipose tissue, but a common rule of thumb classifies people who are more than 20 percent above their desirable weight as obese. ...
- by greenwich
Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:12 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: obesity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2165
The passage presents which of the following facts as evidence that tends to undermine the arboreal hypothesis? A.Feathers tend to become larger over time B.Flapping flight is thought to have evolved gradually over time C.Many small animals are capable of climbing trees. D.Plants in Archaeopteryx’...
- by greenwich
Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:57 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: GMAT RC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2186
obesity
In terms of its prevalence, obesity is the leading disease in the United States. There is no universally accepted standard for obesity, defined generally as an excess of adipose tissue, but a common rule of thumb classifies people who are more than 20 percent above their desirable weight as obese. B...
- by greenwich
Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:51 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: obesity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2165
Linda Kerber
Linda Kerber argued in the mid- 1980’s that after the American Revolution (1775-1783), an ideology of “republican Line motherhood� resulted in a surge of edu- (5) cational opportunities for women in the United States. Kerber maintained that the leaders of the new nation wanted women to be educ...
- by greenwich
Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:38 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Linda Kerber
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2251
Eleanor Roosevelt - Please help!
When the history of women began to receive focused attention in the 1970’, Eleanor Roosevelt Line was one of a handful of female (5) Americans who were well known to both historians and the general public. Despite the evidence that she had been important in socialreform circles before her husband ...
- by greenwich
Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:20 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt - Please help!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1532