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Absolute value
If x and y are integers and y = |x+3|+|4-x| , does y equal 7 ?
1) x < 4
2) x > -3
Can we solve this without substituting numbers?
- by beater
Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:12 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Absolute value
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1082
Comparison/Verbs
Despite recent increases in sales and cash flow that have propelled automobile companies’ common stocks to new highs, several industry analysts expect automakers, in order to conserve cash, to set dividends more conservatively than they were. a) to set dividends more conservatively than they were b)...
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:11 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Comparison/Verbs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5144
Weaken
Businesses are suffering because of lack of money available for development loans. To help businesses, the government plans to modify the income tax structure in order to induce individual taxpayers to put a large portion of their incomes into retirement savings accounts, because as more money is de...
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Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:53 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Weaken
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2674
- by beater
Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:27 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Weaken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2284
I was stuck between A/B and wasn't able to determine the best option - selected B finally!. The way I look at it, A uses the adverb 'usually' which is quite dangerous. Meaning, usually could also mean very rarely in this instance. What say? I had the same issue with B. B uses Some plastic, , which i...
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Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:31 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Weaken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2284
- by beater
Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:12 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Comparison
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2342
Isn'tWhich (in A) supposed to modify the immediately preceding noun?
I understand it doesn't sound logical for which to refer to emmisions, but I'm just going by the rules. Is this sentence an exception?
- by beater
Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:42 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Technique - Modifers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2353
Comparison
There is a widespread belief in the United States and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the "work ethic". 1) ".." 2) less of a commitment to...
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Comparison
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2342
- by beater
Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:05 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Classics
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2630
Assumption
Networks of blood vessels in bats' wings serve only to disperse heat generated in flight. This heat is generated only because bats flap their wings. Thus paleontologists' recent discovery that the winged dinosaur Sandactylus had similar networks of blood vessels in the skin of its wings provides evi...
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:27 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Assumption
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3144
Weaken
It is better for the environment if as much of all packaging as possible is made from materials that are biodegradable in landfills. Therefore, it is always a change for the worse to replace packaging made from paper or cardboard with packaging made from plastics that are not biodegradable in landfi...
- by beater
Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:28 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Weaken
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2284
Strengthen
Mud from a lake on an uninhabited wooded island in northern Lake Superior contains toxic chemicals, including toxaphene, a banned pesticide for cotton that previously was manufactured and used, not in nearby regions of Canada or the northern United States, but in the southern United States. No dumpi...
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:02 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Strengthen
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1994
Assumption
In several cities, the government is going ahead with ambitious construction projects despite the high office-vacancy rates in those cities. The vacant offices, though available for leasing, unfortunately do not meet the requirements for the facilities needed, such as court houses and laboratories. ...
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:17 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Assumption
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3139
Rising interest rates
Noting that the Federal Reserve had raised a key short-term interest rate against last month, analysts said that they expected orders for durable goods to decline soon because rising interest rates makes it more expensive to buy them on credit . A. rising interest rates makes it more expensive to bu...
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Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:16 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Rising interest rates
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1596
Technique - Modifers
Originally developed for detecting air pollutants, a technique called proton-induced x-ray emission, which can quickly analyze the chemical elements in almost any substance without destroying it , is finding uses in medicine, archaeology, and criminology. (A) Originally developed for detecting air ...
- by beater
Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Technique - Modifers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2353