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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:12 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Is xy < 6?
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:11 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: What is the value of a – b ?
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Is the integer x divisible by 36?
15. Is the integer x divisible by 36?
(1) x is divisible by 12.
(2) x is divisible by 9.
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:11 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Is the integer x divisible by 36?
- Replies: 2
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What is the number
14. What is the number of female employees in Company X ? (1) If Company X were to hire 14 more people and all of these people were females, the ratio of the number of male employees to the number of female employees would then be 16 to 9. (2) Company X has 105 more male employees than female employ...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:10 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: What is the number
- Replies: 3
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While on a straight road
11. While on a straight road, car X and car Y are traveling at different constant rates. If car X is now 1 mile ahead of car Y, how many minutes from now will car X be 2 miles ahead of car Y ? (1) Car X is traveling at 50 miles per hour and car Y is traveling at 40 miles per hour. (2) 3 minutes ago ...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:09 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: While on a straight road
- Replies: 5
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If w + z = 28
7.If w + z = 28, what is the value of wz ?
(1) w and z are positive integers.
(2) w and z are consecutive odd integers.
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:08 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: If w + z = 28
- Replies: 6
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A jar contains
5. A jar contains 30 marbles, of which 20 are red and 10 are blue. If 9 of the marbles are removed, how many of the marbles left in the jar are red?
(1) Of the marbles removed, the ratio of the number of red ones to the number of blue ones is 2 : 1.
(2) Of the first 6 marbles removed, 4 are red.
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:07 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: A jar contains
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2767
Last Friday
4. Last Friday a certain shop sold 43 of the sweaters in its inventory. Each sweater sold for $20. What was the total revenue last Friday from the sale of these sweaters? (1) When the shop opened last Friday, there were 160 sweaters in its inventory. (2) All but 40 sweaters in the shop’s inventory w...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:06 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Last Friday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1924
Manufacturers sometimes
14. Manufacturers sometimes discount the price of a product to retailers for a promotion period when the product is advertised to consumers. Such promotions often result in a dramatic increase in amount of product sold by the manufacturers to retailers. Nevertheless, the manufacturers could often ma...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Manufacturers sometimes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5191
When people evade income
15.When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding tax...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: When people evade income
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10687
According to the Tristate
12.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 ro...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:01 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: According to the Tristate
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7105
According to a review
11.According to a review of 61 studies of patients suffering from severely debilitating depression, a large majority of the patients reported that missing a night's sleep immediately lifted their depression. Yet sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression even though the conventional treatment...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:59 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: According to a review
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5938
Laws requiring the use of headlights
9.Laws requiring the use of headlights during daylight hours can prevent automobile collisions. However, since daylight visibility is worse in countries farther from the equator, any such laws would obviously be more effective in preventing collisions in those countries. In fact, the only countries ...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:59 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Laws requiring the use of headlights
- Replies: 6
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Since the deregulation of airlines
6. Since the deregulation of airlines, delays at the nation's increasingly busy airports have increased by 25 percent. To combat this problem, more of the takeoff and landing slots at the busiest airports must be allocated to commercial airlines. Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:58 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Since the deregulation of airlines
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3790
Neanderthals had a vocal tract
22. Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes and so were probably without language, a shortcoming that may explain why they were supplanted by our own species. (A) Neanderthals had a vocal tract that resembled those of the apes (B) Neanderthals had a vocal tract resembling an ...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Neanderthals had a vocal tract
- Replies: 75
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