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NEW QUESTION 236
In 1960, 10 percent of every dollar paid in automobile insurance premiums went to pay costs arising from injuries incurred in car accidents. In 1990, 50 percent of every dollar paid in automobile insurance premiums went toward such costs, despite the fact that cars were much safer in 1990 than in 1960.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the discrepancy outlined above?
- A. Cars grew increasingly more expensive to repair over the period in question.
- B. The price of insurance increased more rapidly than the rate of inflation between 1960 and 1990.
- C. On average, people drove more slowly in 1990 than in 1960.
- D. There were fewer accidents in 1990 than in 1960.
- E. Health-care costs rose sharply between 1960 and 1990.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 237
If A, then B.
If B, then C.
If C, then D.
If all of the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?
- A. If not B, then not C.
- B. If not D, then not A.
- C. If D, then A.
- D. If not A, then not D.
- E. If D, then E.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 238
The color red has been shown to induce greater aggression in people than the color blue, Researchers conducted a study to determine whether such colorinduced aggression could influence the amount that consumers were willing to pay for an identical product in online auction and online negotiation scenarios.
The researchers photographed a single item against each of four background colors: blue, gray, white, and red. Using a computer, each participant in the study viewed the item against exactly one of the four background colors. Half of the participants were told the item was up for auction and were asked to submit their highest bid for the item. The other half of the participants were told to negotiate a price with the seller and were asked to offer the highest amount that they would be willing to pay for the item.
The researchers expected that participants who viewed the red background would typically behave more aggressively than those who viewed the blue background. Among the auction group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would submit higher bids as they tried to beat other potential bidders. Among the negotiation group, the researchers hypothesized that more aggressive participants would make lower offers as they tried to compete against the seller to get the best deal.
For each of the following statements about the researchers' study, select Yes if that statement accurately reflects the information provided. Otherwise, select No.
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NEW QUESTION 239
A certain truck averages 10 miles per gallon when driven in the city and 25 miles per gallon when driven on the highway. According to these rates, which of the following is closest to the number of miles per gallon that the truck averages when it is driven 20 miles in the city and 30 miles on the highway?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 240
Of the coins in a certain collection, 30 percent were issued more than ten years ago and 45 percent are foreign.
Of the foreign coins, 20 percent were issued more than ten
years ago. If there are 1,500 coins in the collection, how many are foreign coins that were issued ten years ago or less?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
- E. 4
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 241
Alexander Calder was one of the most innovative and original American artists of the twentieth century.
Calder arrived in Paris in 1926 and devoted himself to a innovative project comprised of animals made out of wire, scraps of cloth, wood, cork, labels, bits of scrap metal and pieces of rubber that he called the Circus. During his performances, Calder invented ways to simulate the flight of birds: "These are little bits of white paper, with a hole and slight weight on each one, which flutter down several variously coiled thin steel wires which I jiggle so that they flutter down like doves." The Circus was the laboratory of Calder's work; in it he experimented with new formulas and techniques. By 1930, Calder's Circus had developed into one of the real successes of the Montparnasse art world attracting the attention of such renowned artists as Fernand Leger and Joan Micro. Encouragement from the upper echelons of the Parisian art scene undoubtedly led him to try more serious experiments in wire sculptures. Calder eventually becoming interested in the movement of objects, some of which he motorized. In 1933, Calder completed Object with Red Discs, a sculpture he described as a two-meter rod with a heavy sphere, suspended from the apex of a wire, giving it a cantilever effect. It had five thin aluminum discs projected at right angels from five wires, held in position by a spherical counterweight. With this new creation, the idea of the mobile was born. In creating a work named Constellations in 1943, Calder explored the plastic possibilities of mobiles; he used small pieces of wood, which he shaped and sometimes painted. From this point on, Calder's ambition changed focus. He sought more challenging designs. One of Calder's objectives was to display objects in the air, giving the viewer the experience of finding new skies filled with moving and colored constellations.
Calder accomplished this in Acoustic Ceiling (1954). Calder's humor was evident in such works as Le Bougnat (1959) and The Pagoda (1963). Later, Calder cut fantastic animals from sheet metal, creating La Vache and Elephant (both 1970) and a mobile entitled Nervous Wreck (1976), which represents the red skeleton of a fish. Calder defined volume without mass and incorporated movement and time in art. His inventions, which redefined certain basic principles of sculpture, have established him as the most innovative sculptor of the twentieth century.
According to the passage, which of the following is an accurate statement about Object with Red Discs?
- A. It was the first motorized mobile created by Calder.
- B. It was one of the many motorized mobiles created by Calder.
- C. It was the first of the many mobiles without motors created by Calder.
- D. It was one of the many mobiles without motors created by Calder.
- E. It was the first mobile created by Calder.
Answer: E
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The best answer is A.
According to the passage, Object with Red Discs is Calder's first mobile. It states that Calder became interested in the movement of objects, some of which he motorized, but there is no information given on whether this particular sculpture was motorized.
NEW QUESTION 242
Which of the following is the best example of the profound changes in corporate strategy and structure discussed In the second paragraph?
- A. Appointment of a manager to oversee all contact among departments within a company
- B. increased emphasis on competition among departments
- C. Increased authority of a department manager over the staff of another department
- D. Initiation of collaborative joint projects by staff from different departments
- E. Assignment of managerial tasks to nonmanagerial departmental staff
Answer: D
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Managerial work is undergoing enormous and rapid change. With little precedent to guide them, managers are coping with the fading away of hierarchy and the blurring of clear distinctions of title, task, department, even corporation. Traditional sources of power are being eroded as levels of complexity and interdependence increase.
Competitive pressures from recent business downturns are forcing corporations to adopt flexible strategies and structures, including reductions In management staff and increased use of performance-based (rather than longevity-based) rewards. In a more profound change, in a growing number of companies horizontal ties between peers are replacing vertical ties as channels of activity and communication. Companies are asking departmental staff to play a more strategic role, with greater cross-departmental collaboration. Some organizations are forming strategic alliances with customers and outside suppliers that bring external relationships inside, where they can influence company policy.
Fundamentally, the new managerial work involves new ways of obtaining and using power. Position, title, and authority are no longer adequate tools when managers have to work cooperatively with other departments and even other companies. The ability of managers to get things done depends more on the number of networks in which they are included than on their rank in a hierarchy. In the past, formal structures and the emphasis on rank were more limiting. For example, access to information and the ability to get informal backing were often confined to the few officially sanctioned contact points between departments or between the company and Its suppliers or customers. Today, official barriers between departments and between companies are disappearing while Informal networks grow in importance. The new corporation has many more channels for action, strategic pathways that ignore the chain of command.
These strategic pathways also serve to diffuse power. As the number of ways to combine resources Increases, the ability to command diminishes. Alternative paths of communication and resource access erode the authority of those in the nominal chain of command. In other words, greater speed and flexibility undermine hierarchy. As more and more of the strategic action takes place in these informal networks, the Jobs that focus inward on particular departments decline In power.
NEW QUESTION 243
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price-reduction strategies should not be used because______
- A. manufacturing a premium brand is not necessarily more costly than manufacturing a standard brand of the same product
- B. affluent purchasers currently represent a shrinking portion of the population of all purchasers
- C. purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products
- D. expansion of the market niche to include a broader spectrum of consumers will increase profits
- E. continued sales depend directly on the maintenance of an aura of exclusivity
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION 244 
What is the median of the numbers in set A?
(1) n is even.
(2) n is less than 7.
- A. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- B. BOTH statements TOGETHER ace sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
- C. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
- D. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone Is not sufficient.
- E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 245
In the United States, vacationers account for more than half of all visitors to what are technically called
"pure aquariums" but for fewer than one quarter of all visitors to zoos, which usually include a "zoo aquarium" of relatively modest scope.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the difference described above between visitors to zoos and visitors to pure aquariums?
- A. The zoo aquariums of zoos that are in the same city as a pure aquarium tend to be smaller than the aquariums of zoos that have no pure aquarium nearby.
- B. Virtually all large metropolitan areas have zoos, whereas only a few large metropolitan areas have pure aquariums.
- C. People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium that year than are people who do not visit a zoo.
- D. Over the last ten years, newly constructed pure aquariums have outnumbered newly established zoos by a factor of two to one.
- E. In cities that have both a zoo and a pure aquarium, local residents are twice as likely to visit the aquarium as they are to visit the zoo.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION 246
Though unified in their opposition to drilling in the Arctic, the authors' opposition to drilling elsewhere was less vocal.
- A. Though unified in their opposition to drilling in the Arctic, the authors were less vocal to opposing drilling elsewhere.
- B. The authors' opposition, although unified on drilling in the Arctic, was less vocal to drilling elsewhere.
- C. Though unified in their opposition to drilling in the Arctic, the authors' opposition was less vocal to drilling elsewhere.
- D. Though unified in their opposition to drilling in the Arctic, the authors' opposition to drilling elsewhere was less vocal.
- E. The authors, though unified In their opposition to drilling in the Arctic, were less vocal In their opposition to drilling elsewhere.
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 247 
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Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 248
Psychological research indicates that college hockey and football players are more quickly moved to hostility and aggression than are college athletes in no contact sports such as swimming. But the researchers' conclusion - that contact sports encourage and teach participants to be hostile and aggressive - is untenable. The football and hockey players were probably more hostile and aggressive to start with than the swimmers.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the psychological researchers?
- A. The research studies were designed to include no college athletes who participated in both contact and non-contact sports.
- B. Throughout the United States, more incidents of fan violence occur at baseball games than occur at hockey or football games.
- C. The same psychological research indicated that the football and hockey players had a great respect for cooperation and team play, whereas the swimmers were most concerned with excelling as individual competitors.
- D. The football and hockey players became more hostile and aggressive during the season and remained so during the off-season, whereas there was no increase in aggressiveness among the swimmers.
- E. The football and hockey players, but not the swimmers, were aware at the start of the experiment that they were being tested for aggressiveness.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 249
Traditionally, decision-making by managers that is reasoned step-by-step has been considered preferable to intuitive decision-making. However, a recent study found that top managers used intuition significantly more than did most middle- or lower-level managers. This confirms the alternative view that intuition is actually more effective than careful, methodical reasoning.
The conclusion above is based on which of the following assumptions?
- A. The decisions made by middle- and lower-level managers can be made as easily by using methodical reasoning as by using intuitive reasoning.
- B. Methodical, step-by-step reasoning is inappropriate for making many real-life management decisions.
- C. Top managers are more effective at decision-making than middle- or lower-level managers.
- D. Top managers use intuitive reasoning in making the majority of their decisions.
- E. Top managers have the ability to use either intuitive reasoning or methodical, step-by-step reasoning in making decisions.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 250
The main reason for the decline in worldwide illiteracy rates, which have dropped over the last 20 years, is the sharp increase of literacy rates among young women, which is the result of campaigns to increase educational opportunities for girls.
- A. Declining over the last 20 years, worldwide illiteracy rates have fallen for one main reason, which
- B. The main reason for the decline in worldwide illiteracy rates, which have dropped over the last 20 years,
- C. The main reason worldwide illiteracy rates, having dropped over the last 20 years,
- D. The main reason for the decline in worldwide illiteracy rates over the last 20 years
- E. Declining over the last 20 years, the main reason for the fall in illiteracy rates
Answer: D
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This is the most correct and concise version. Choices a, b, and d are less concise, and d creates an illogical sentence by changing have to having. Choice c is incorrect because declining over the last 20 years is misplaced and as a result modifies main reason.
NEW QUESTION 251
Motor-scooter dealers attribute a drastic decline in sales over the last few years to a new law requiring motor-scooter riders to wear helmets. Previously, helmets had been obligatory for motorcycle riders but not for motor-scooter riders-a difference that the dealers argue made scooters preferable for many customers. Safety advocates, however, dispute the dealers' explanation, pointing out that the law's introduction coincided with a large increase in the cost of mandatory insurance for both types of vehicle.
In evaluating the safety advocates' and the dealers' explanations, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
- A. How sales of motorcycles that are close in purchase price to motor scooters have changed over the period that scooter sales have declined
- B. Whether there were any motor-scooter riders who regularly wore helmets before the law required them to do so
- C. Whether the cost of mandatory insurance for other motor vehicles has increased at the same rate as the insurance cost for motor scooters and motorcycles
- D. How sales of imported motor scooters have changed compared with sales of domestically produced models
- E. How the accident rate for motor scooters compares to the accident rate for motorcycles
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 252
Studies of fatal automobile accidents reveal that, in the majority of cases in which one occupant of an automobile is killed while another survives, it is the passenger, not the driver, who is killed. It is ironic that the innocent passenger should suffer for the driver's carelessness, while the driver often suffers only minor injuries or none at all.
Which of the following is an assumption underlying the reasoning in the passage above?
- A. In most fatal automobile accidents, the driver of a car in which an occupant is killed is at fault.
- B. Auto safety experts should increase their efforts to provide protection for those in the passenger seats of automobiles.
- C. Most deaths in fatal automobile accidents are suffered by occupants of cars rather than by pedestrians.
- D. Drivers of automobiles are rarely killed in auto accidents.
- E. Automobile passengers sometimes play a contributing role in causing auto accidents.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 253
Consumer income reports produced by the government distinguish between households and families by means of the following definition: "A family is a household containing a householder and at least one person related to the householder." Except for the homeless and people in group living quarters, most people live in households.
According to the definition above, which of the following must be true?
- A. All of the people related to a householder form a family.
- B. Some homeless people reside in group living quarters.
- C. Some people residing in group living quarters are members of families.
- D. All families include a householder.
- E. All householders are members of families.
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 254
The First Banking Group's decision to invest in an electronic network for transferring funds was based on a cost advantage over a nonelectronic system of about ten dollars per transaction in using an electronic system. Executives reasoned further that the system would give them an advantage over competitors.
Which of the following, if it is a realistic possibility, most seriously weakens the executives' projection of an advantage over competitors?
- A. Competitors will for the same reasons install electronic systems, and the resulting overcapacity will lead to mutually damaging price wars.
- B. The cost advantage of using the electronic system will not increase sufficiently to match the pace of inflation.
- C. Large banks from outside the area served by the First Banking Group have recently established branches in that area as competitors to the First Banking Group.
- D. The electronic system will provide a means for faster transfer of funds, if the First Banking Group wishes to provide faster transfer to its customers.
- E. Equipment used in the electronic network for transferring funds will be compatible with equipment used in other such networks.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION 255
Each of the 75 employees at @ certain company works in exactly one of the company's 3 departments (Departments X, Y, and Z). Exactly 20% of the employees work in Department X, and 10 fewer employees work in DepartmentY than work in Department Z.
Based on the information provided, select for Departinent Yand Department Zthe numbers of employees who work in Department Y and Department Z. Make only two selections, one in each column.
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NEW QUESTION 256
Which of the following does the passage NOT indicate is practiced by one or more companies in emerging markets discussed in the study?
- A. Reducing illegal use of their resources by working with regulators
- B. Reengineering their practices in order to do more with fewer resources
- C. Allying with other companies In order to develop environmental sustainability Initiatives
- D. Working with outside partners to mitigate risks of the company's investments
- E. Lowering prices in order to decrease certain types ol losses
Answer: C
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Many policymakers adopt a macro approach to environmental problems in emerging markets (countries experiencing rapid economic growth): discussing ambitious regulations in global forums and looking to giant multinational companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for insight. But examining what successful companies in these countries are already doing to make growth more environmentally sustainable may make more sense.
One study identifies several such firms that are turning eco-consciousness into a source of competitive advantage. The most salient quality of these highly profitable companies Is that they turn limitations (of resources, labor, and Infrastructure) into opportunities. An Indian cement company suffering water shortages developed the world's most water-efficient cement-making method, using air-cooling rather than water cooling. A Philippines utility reduced its water loss through wastage and illegal tapping from 63 percent (1997) to 12 percent (2010) by making water more affordable for lower-Income consumers. A Chinese company makes air conditioners powered with buildings' waste heat, reducing strain on the electric grid.
The companies also seek to shape their business environment to support sustainable objectives. Some lobby regulators: a Brazilian organic-sugar producer works with Brazil's government to establish an organic certification system. Some form partnerships: Kenya's Equity Bank allies with international groups to reduce its risks when lending to smallholders or single-family farms; a Brazilian cosmetics company works with suppliers to produce sustainable packaging. Some firms also work to reach and educate lower-income consumers, sacrificing short-term profits to create future markets: a Chilean forestry company organizes local carpenters into networks and connects them to low-income customers.
One could quibble with the study. Switzerland's Phil Rosenzweig has argued that management writers are prone to a halo effect: they treat a company's temporary success as proof that It has discovered some eternal principle of good management. That some successful companies have embraced environmental sustainability does not prove that It makes companies successful. Some firms, having prospered, can afford splurging on green Initiatives; some pursue eco-Initiatives for public relations purposes.
Nonetheless, the study Is thought-provoking. Critics argue that environmentalism Is a rich-world luxury, but such fears are overblown. When natural resources are scarce and consumers are cash-strapped, sustainability can be a lucrative business strategy
NEW QUESTION 257
In a survey in which people were asked what would improve public school education, 76 percent cited higher teacher pay and 65 percent cited using standardized tests. What percent of those surveyed cited higher teacher pay but did not cite using standardized tests?
(1) 52 percent of those surveyed cited both higher teacher pay and using standardized tests.
(2) 11 percent of those surveyed cited neither higher teacher pay nor using standardized tests.
- A. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
- B. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
- C. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
- D. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
- E. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 258
A certain solution that is 30 percent acid is obtained by mixing a-gallons of a 20 percent acid solution with y gallons of a 60 percent acid solution, where the percents are according to volume. How many gallons of the 60 percent acid solution must be used to obtain 10 gallons of the 30 percent add solution?
- A. 2.5
- B. 4.0
- C. 3.3
- D. 0.75
- E. 5.0
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 259
Since the routine use of antibiotics can give rise to resistant bacteria capable of surviving antibiotic environments, the presence of resistant bacteria in people could be due to the human use of prescription antibiotics. Some scientists, however, believe that most resistant bacteria in people derive from human consumption of bacterially infected meat.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most significantly strengthen the hypothesis of the scientists?
- A. People who have never taken prescription antibiotics are those least likely to develop resistant bacteria.
- B. Livestock producers claim that resistant bacteria in animals cannot be transmitted to people through infected meat.
- C. Antibiotics are routinely included in livestock feed so that livestock producers can increase the rate of growth of their animals.
- D. Most people who develop food poisoning from bacterially infected meat are treated with prescription antibiotics.
- E. The incidence of resistant bacteria in people has tended to be much higher in urban areas than in rural areas where meat is of comparable quality.
Answer: C
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