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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: 1283

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: 1338

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: 1935

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: 1204

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: 6180

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: 4922

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: 1471

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: 1360

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: 1686

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: 1450

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: 1994

is x-y odd?

If x, y, and z are positive integers, is x-y odd?

1) x = z^2

2) y = (z-1)^2

by EricKryk

Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:29 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: is x-y odd?
Replies: 3
Views: 1728

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: 5360

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: 2193