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Question 1

Mayor: In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for nonessential services were actually reduced. So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the mayor’s conclusion?

A : The city’s schools have always provided essential services as efficiently as they have provided nonessential services.

B : Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city’s schools to provide some nonessential services

C : Price estimates quoted to the city’s schools for the provision of nonessential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school funding cut.

D : Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city’s schools

E : The city’s school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of threatened funding cuts.

Answer: B

Question 2

There are three sprinters on a racetrack. How much time will it take all three to finish an 800 meters race?(1) The first runner can run the fastest, he runs at a 110% of the slowest runner.(2) The slowest runner runs at a constant speed of 7 meters per second.

A : Statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) by itself is not.

B : Statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) by itself is not.

C : Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, even though NEITHER statement BY ITSELF is sufficient

D : Either statement BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question

E : Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question, requiring more data pertaining to the problem.

Answer: C

Question 3

In the industrialized nations, the last century has witnessed a shortening of the average workday from twelvehours or longer to less than eight hours. Mindful of this enormous increase in leisure time over the past century,many people assume that the same trend has obtained throughout history, and that, therefore, prehistorichumans must have labored incessantly for their very survival.We cannot, of course, directly test this assumption. However, a study of primitive peoples of today suggests adifferent conclusion. The Mbuti of central Africa, for instance, spend only a few hours each day in hunting,gathering, and tending to other economic necessities. The rest of their time is spent as they choose. Theimplication is that the short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies. Rather, both the extendedworkday of 1880 and the shorter workday of today are products of different stages of the continuing process ofindustrialization.Which of the following inferences about industrialization is best supported by the passage above?

A : People in advanced industrialized societies have more leisure time than those in no industrialized societies

B : An average workday of twelve hours or more is peculiar to economies in the early stages of industrialization.

C : Industrialization involves a trade-off between tedious, monotonous jobs and the benefits of increased leisure.

D : It is likely that the extended workday of an industrializing country will eventually be shortened.

E : As industrialization progresses, people tend to look for self-fulfillment in leisure rather than work.

Answer: D

Question 4

Surveys show that every year only 10 percent of cigarette smokers switch brands. Yet the manufacturers have been spending an amount equal to 10 percent of their gross receipts on cigarette promotion in magazines. It follows from these figures that inducing cigarette smokers to switch brands did not pay, and that cigarette companies would have been no worse off economically if they had dropped their advertising. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion that cigarette companies could have dropped advertising without suffering economically?

A : Cigarette advertisements provide a major proportion of total advertising revenue for numerous magazines.

B : Cigarette promotion serves to attract first-time smokers to replace those people who have stopped smoking.

C : There exists no research conclusively demonstrating that increases in cigarette advertising are related to increases in smoking

D : Advertising is so firmly established as a major business activity of cigarette manufacturers that they would be unlikely to drop it.

E : Brand loyalty is typically not very strong among those who smoke inexpensive cigarettes

Answer: B

Question 5

Given a spinner with four sections of equal size labeled A, B, C, and D, what is the probability of NOT getting an A after spinning the spinner two times?

A : 9/16

B : 1/8

C : 1/4

D : 1/2

E : 15/16

Answer: A