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The GMAT exam is a computer-adaptive test, meaning that the computer will adjust the difficulty level of the questions based on the candidate's performance, ensuring that each candidate receives a unique set of questions tailored to their skill level. GMAT exam is widely recognized by top business schools across the globe as a reliable measure of an individual's potential for success in graduate management programs. Candidates seeking admission to MBA and other business programs are encouraged to take the GMAT exam to enhance their chances of gaining admission into their desired program.
The GMAT exam consists of four distinct sections, including Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), Integrated Reasoning (IR), Quantitative Reasoning, and Verbal Reasoning. The AWA section requires candidates to analyze and critique a given argument, while the IR section measures the ability to solve complex problems using multiple sources of information. The Quantitative Reasoning section tests the candidate's skills in data analysis, algebra, and geometry, while the Verbal Reasoning section evaluates the candidate's skills in critical reasoning, reading comprehension, and sentence correction.
NEW QUESTION # 268
It would cost Rose town one million dollars to repair all of its roads. In the year after completion of those repairs, however, Rose town would thereby avoid incurring three million dollars worth of damages, since currently Rose town pays that amount annually in compensation for damage done to cars each year by its unrepaired roads.
Which of the following, if true, gives the strongest support to the argument above?
- A. Trucks cause much of the wear on Rose town's roads, but owners of cars file almost all of the claims for compensation for damage caused by unrepaired roads.
- B. Rose town would need to raise additional taxes if it were to spend one million dollars in one year on road repairs.
- C. After any Rose town road has been repaired, several years will elapse before that road begins to damage cars.
- D. Communities bordering on Rose town also pay compensation for damage done to cars by their unrepaired roads.
- E. The degree of damage caused to Rose town's roads by harsh weather can vary widely from year to year.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION # 270
The lobbyists argued that because there is no statistical evidence that breathing other people's tobacco smoke increases the incidence of heart disease or lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers, legislation banning smoking in workplaces cannot be justified on health grounds.
Of the following, which is the best criticism of the argument reported above?
- A. It fails to mention the roles played by diet, exercise, and heredity in the development of heart disease.
- B. It neglects the damaging effects of smoke-filled air on nonsmokers who are not healthy.
- C. It ignores causes of lung cancer other than smoking.
- D. It does not acknowledge that nonsmokers, even those who breathe smoke-filled air at work, are in general healthier than smokers.
- E. It does not consider the possibility that nonsmokers who breathe smoke-filled air at work may become more concerned about their health.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 271
Mary Shelley's 1818 classic Frankenstein has been the most-taught novel on college campuses in the country for the past 10 years. This is due primarily to the worries about scientific responsibility brought on by the recent surge of advances in science and technology, especially biotechnology. Which of the following statements, if true, would be most helpful in evaluating this argument?
- A. Frankenstein is considered the first science-fiction novel.
- B. In the novel, Frankenstein's creature causes a great deal of destruction because he is constantly rejected by others.
- C. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster and then abandons it, refusing to take responsibility for his creation.
- D. Most Americans are opposed to cloning human beings.
- E. Most people who have not read the novel mistakenly assume that Frankenstein is the monster, not the scientist who created the monster.
Answer: C
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The fact that Dr. Frankenstein brings a creature to life but then abandons that creature, refusing to take responsibility for his creation, tells us that one of Frankenstein's main themes is scientific responsibility.
This would help explain why college professors concerned about scientific responsibility would choose this book. The other choices may be interesting and informative, but they do not help you evaluate the argument because they do not provide information that enables you to ascertain the relevance of the conclusion.
NEW QUESTION # 272
Hardin argued that grazing land held in common (that is, open to any user) would always be used less carefully than private grazing land. Each rancher would be tempted to overuse common land because the benefits would accrue to the individual, while the costs of reduced land quality that results from overuse would be spread among all users. But a study comparing 217 million acres of common grazing land with
433 million acres of private grazing land showed that the common land was in better condition.
The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the significance, in relation to Hardin's claim, of the study described above?
- A. Did any of the ranchers whose land was studied use both common and private land?
- B. Were there any owners of herds who used only common land, and no private land, for grazing?
- C. Were the users of the common land that was studied at least as prosperous as the users of the private land?
- D. Did the ranchers whose land was studied tend to prefer using common land over using private land for grazing?
- E. Was the private land that was studied of comparable quality to the common land before either was used for grazing?
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION # 273
Parasitic wasps propagate by injecting their eggs into a caterpillar that then becomes paralyzed as the eggs inside develop into wasp larvae. The wasp larvae kill the caterpillar host as they feed on it, form cocoons, and finally develop into wasps. In attempting to discover how such wasps detect the presence of the caterpillar hosts that are so critical to the wasps' propagation, researchers have uncovered an intriguing defense mechanism developed by the plants on which the caterpillars feed.
When chewed on, many plants release volatile compounds from both damaged and undamaged tissues. When these compounds are toxic to the insects that feed on the plants, they can help defend the plants from such attacks. However, the plants on which the wasps' caterpillar hosts feed have evolved an even more complex defense: the caterpillar-infested plants appear to release volatile chemicals that attract parasitic wasps, which then prey on the caterpillars. Scientists originally suspected that the wasps were attracted by an odor, reminiscent of cut grass, that is released as the caterpillar feeds, but a recent study suggests that a different set of volatile attractants is involved. In this study, when researchers used a razor blade to mimic caterpillar damage on the leaves, only grassy odors were emitted, not the volatile compounds that attracted wasps.
However, when oral secretions from the caterpillars were applied to these damaged leaves, the leaves released the wasp attractants several hours later. Further tests revealed that oral secretions placed on the razor-damaged leaves stimulated the release of such attractants, making the plants as attractive to wasps as plants that had suffered actual caterpillar damage. These results suggest that chemicals from the caterpillar must be present for these attractants to be released and that unlike the grassy scent, which emanates only as the caterpillar on the plant, the wasp attractants are produced several hours after the attack and persist for several hours, perhaps days. Researchers have launched additional studies to determine whether the wasps' capacity to prey on caterpillars can be enhanced to the extent that the wasps could be used as a natural pesticide to "police" plants and protect them from crop-destroying caterpillars.
It can be inferred from the passage that if the leaves of a plant were damaged by wind rather than by caterpillars, the parasitic wasps would
- A. not be significantly more attracted to the damaged plant than to other, undamaged plants
- B. not be attracted to the plant until several hours after the damage occurred
- C. be attracted to the plant if it gave off a grassy odor
- D. be attracted to the plant if other plants in its immediate vicinity had also been damaged by the wind
- E. be attracted to the plant even if the damage to the leaves was very minor
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 274
Which of the following is most strongly supported by the findings of the Harms study?
- A. Right-handed people shown a seating plan tend to choose seats on the right side of the seating diagram whether it shows the front seats at the top or the bottom.
- B. The seating choices of those attending a movie, regardless of the genre, have little impact on how well the movie is understood.
- C. In theaters full to capacity and with left-right symmetry in their seating diagram, not a audience members get to sit on the side of the theater they most favor.
- D. Well-made documentaries contain significantly more visuospatial content than emotional content.
- E. The seats preferred by most left-handed people attending a movie are on the opposite side of the theater from those preferred by most right-handed people.
Answer: C
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Despite overall physiological bilateral symmetry, many species exhibit
lateralized biases, i.e., preferences for right- or left-oriented behavior. When approaching prey, for example, some predator species favor their right eye; some prey species respond more quickly when their left eye detects a predator. Similar behavioral asymmetries occur in humans. Most notable is right- and lefthandedness; less notable is the tendency to turn right when entering a room.
Paul Farnsworth found that more successful students tended to choose seats near the front, a little to the right. He arqued that external factors such as teacher location might have affected this lateral bias. But it is now known that processing differences between the two brain hemispheres can also contribute to behavioral asymmetries.
George Karev found that when presented with a movie theater seating
diagram, right-handed people were more likely than left-handed people to choose a seat on the right, facing front. But he hypothesized that, since the right hemisphere processes visuospatial and emotional information, the people who chose right-side seats did so because that would put the screen in their left visual field, optimizing information flow to the right hemisphere.
Although the right hemisphere is thought to be dominant in processing
emotion, some evidence suggests that the left hemisphere plays a role. The valence model proposes that the left and right hemispheres process positive and negative emotion respectively, while the approach-withdrawal model posits that the left hemisphere processes emotion expressed in approach behavior and the right hemisphere processes emotion expressed in withdrawal behavior.
Victoria Harms and colleagues suggested that since a paper seating plan was used in the theater-seating studies by Karev and others, the exhibited preference might be due simply to handedness: people choose the same side of the paper as their favored hand. Consequently, the Harms research was designed to study choices in an actual movie theater. Also, hoping to distinguish between various explanations, they studied seating choices for comedies (presumed to contain positive emotional content), dramas (presumed to contain negative emotional content), and documentaries (presumed to have balanced emotional content).
They found significant-though not universal-preference for seats on the right, facing front, regardless of movie genre and of handedness.
NEW QUESTION # 275
If x, y, and z are positive integers and x3y4 = z, what is the value of x?
(1)
y = 2
(2)
z = 2,000
- A. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER 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. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 276
Historians create Ideas we cal "history," which are derived from an order existing in the real work) of historical fact. Since the patterns discovered In that world depend In part on the alms of the Investigator, however, historical periods will tend to be defined In Incompatible ways by historians with different interests.
Thus, insofar as the aims of historians of music, painting, literature, and poetry are different, it cannot be assumed that_________.
Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
- A. real-world facts about art will ever be accurately represented
- B. there are any facts from which patterns of artistic style may be derived
- C. the accounts of these historians will ever be anything but arbitrary
- D. the historical patterns defined by these historians will differ appreciably
- E. the periods of artistic style delineated by these historians will coincide
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 277
A light bulb company produces 2,000 light bulbs per week. The manager wants to ensure that standards of quality remain constant from week to week. The manager, therefore, claims that out of 2,000 light bulbs produced per week, 500 light bulbs are rejected.
Of the following, the best criticism of the manager's plan is that the plan assumes that
- A. the 1,500 light bulbs that are accepted will be of the same quality from week to week
- B. each light bulb that is reviewed is worthy of being reviewed
- C. the overall quality of the light bulbs would not be improved if the total number of light bulbs produced were reduced
- D. it is difficult to judge the quality of a light bulb
- E. light bulb manufacturers cannot accept all light bulbs that produced
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION # 278
A researcher studying drug addicts found that, on average, they tend to manipulate other people a great deal more than non addicts do. The researcher concluded that people who frequently manipulate other people are likely to become addicts.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the researcher's conclusion?
- A. The addicts that the researcher studied were often unsuccessful in obtaining what they wanted when they manipulated other people.
- B. When they are imprisoned, drug addicts often use their ability to manipulate other people to obtain better living conditions.
- C. After becoming addicted to drugs, drug addicts learn to manipulate other people as a way of obtaining drugs.
- D. People who are likely to become addicts exhibit unusual behavior patterns other than frequent manipulation of other people.
- E. Some non addicts manipulate other people more than some addicts do.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION # 279
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. 4.0
- B. 3.3
- C. 0.75
- D. 2.5
- E. 5.0
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 280
Unlike the wholesale price of uncut diamonds, the wholesale price of other uncut gemstones has fallen considerably in the last year. Thus, although the retail price of jewelry made with gemstones other than diamonds has not yet fallen, it will inevitably fall.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
- A. The cost of processing uncut gemstones has increased during the last year.
- B. Changes in retail prices always lag behind changes in wholesale prices.
- C. The operating costs of the average retail jewelry store have remained constant during the last year.
- D. The cost of mining gemstones other than diamonds has increased in the last year.
- E. The wholesale price of uncut diamonds is typically higher than that of the same volume of other uncut gemstones.
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION # 281
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
In today's pluralistic society, textbook publishers find themselves in an increasingly uncomfortable position.
Since the schools are regarded as a repository of society's moral and cultural values, each group within society wishes to prevent any material that offends its own values from appearing in textbooks. As a result, stance on an issue is certain to run afoul of one group or another. And since textbook publishers must rely on community goodwill to sell their books, it is inevitable that______
- A. school boards, teachers, and principals will find it nearly impossible to choose among the variety of textbooks being offered
- B. the ethical and moral content of textbooks will become increasingly neutral and bland
- C. fewer and fewer publishers will be willing to enter the financially uncertain textbook industry
- D. the government will be forced to intervene in the increasingly rancorous debate over the content of textbooks
- E. more and more pressure groups will arise that seek to influence the content of textbooks
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 282
The U.S. census is not perfect: thousands of Americans probably go uncounted. However, the basic statistical portrait of the nation painted by the census is accurate. Certainly some of the poor go uncounted, particularly the homeless; but some of the rich go uncounted as well, because they are often abroad or traveling between one residence and another.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above depends?
- A. The primary purpose of the census is to analyze the economic status of the American population.
- B. The number of homeless Americans is approximately equal to the number of rich Americans.
- C. All Americans may reasonably be classified as either poor or rich.
- D. Both the rich and the poor have personal and economic reasons to avoid being counted by the census.
- E. The percentage of poor Americans uncounted by the census is close to the percentage of rich Americans uncounted.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION # 283
An Australian group named Action Council on Smoking and Health (ACSH) has recently lobbied to make warnings on cigarette packets more graphic. The council proposed that striking visual photos of diseased organs should be put on at least 50% of outside packaging, in conjunction with health warnings outlining smoking hazards enumerated in a separate leaflet placed inside the cigarette packet. The ACSH claim that bland and ineffectual warnings like "Smoking is a health hazard" currently found on cigarette packets are not nearly sufficient.
Substituting those inadequate admonitions with explicit photos will provide a powerful visual stimulus to help smokers relinquish their habit. The current cautions on cigarette packets have little or no impact on smokers who have grown immune to the warnings that focus on abstract tobacco related risks and illnesses from which smokers can easily disassociate themselves. The proposed new tactics would concentrate on the perspective of the individual smoker through a demonstration of what is occurring in his body each time he reaches for a cigarette, rather than a generic cautionary word of advise.
The ACSH cited the results of recent studies conducted by psychologists at McKean University confirming that evidence related to one's own experience is more effective at influencing future behavior than a presentation of facts and figures. A further rationale for the addition of pictures to cigarette packages is the finding that smokers handle their packets 20-30 times a day, on average, thus, if graphic pictures on cigarette packets were introduced, smoker would have 20-30 chances to face the harsh reality of what damage they are doing to themselves each time they light up.
Even more essential than the pictures on the outside label, ACSH strongly advocate including warnings and helpful information in a leaflet inserted into the packet of cigarettes. Even an analgesic, ACSH adds, found in every bathroom cabinet has all possible side effects enumerated in the insert. How much more imperative is it then when the substance in question is tobacco, a dried weed that contains highly noxious nicotine that society still accepts even though it kills one of every two of its users.
Fundamentally, what is at stake here is consumer rights. Smokers should know what substances they are inhaling, and what damage they are inflicting to their bodies, though surprisingly, even today, many do not.
For this reason alone, the recommendation for more graphic pictures and warnings on cigarette packets, which many seem excessive, is being seriously considered.
It can be inferred from the passage
- A. That smoker's look at their cigarette packages each time they take out a cigarette.
- B. That if the written warnings were less bland and ineffectual, smokers would not take more notice of them.
- C. That smoking cigarettes cause's damage to the internal organs of the body.
- D. That cigarette manufacturers would comply with regulations ordering them to add graphic pictures of diseased organs to their outside packaging.
- E. That society will not continue to condone smoking if it is proven even more dangerous than was previously assumed.
Answer: C
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From the passage E is incorrect because the passage claims that smokers have an opportunity to look at their cigarette packages, not that they actually do.
NEW QUESTION # 284
In 1990 all of the people who applied for a job at Evco also applied for a job at Radeco, and Evco and Radeco each offered jobs to half of these applicants. Therefore, every one of these applicants must have been offered a job in 1990.
The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions about these job applicants?
- A. None of the applicants had applied for jobs at places other than Evco and Radeco.
- B. All of the applicants were very well qualified for a job at either Evco or Radeco.
- C. None of the applicants was offered a job by both Evco and Radeco.
- D. None of the applicants had previously worked for either Evco or Radeco.
- E. All of the applicants accepted a job at either Evco or Radeco.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 285
Increasing the speed limit to 65 miles per hour or more on highways is dangerous and only leads to more accidents. Whenever the highway speed has been increased, accident rates have increased in that state.
Maine raised its turnpike speed to 65 mph in November, and more fatal accidents occurred in December than any other month in the year. Highway fatalities in December and January combined were up 18% from November.
All of the following are valid criticisms of this argument EXCEPT
- A. it does not consider other possible causes for increases in accidents, such as winter weather driving conditions in Maine.
- B. it does not specify whether the accident rate increase was in accidents only on the highways where the speed limit was increased or on all highways.
- C. it only cites statistics for one state.
- D. it does not acknowledge that speed is not the only cause of accidents.
- E. it does not explain why the speed limit was originally set at 55 mph.
Answer: E
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NEW QUESTION # 286
The passage mentions "high-frequency changes in inventory" (see bolded text) in order to
- A. isolate the causal factors that contribute to the changes in production that have been observed
- B. show how the concept of inventory is identical to the concept of buffer stock
- C. demonstrate that when changes in inventory are fast enough, efficient smoothing of production is achieved
- D. identify a kind of event that can help determine whether producers actually use inventories in the way described
- E. explain how rapidly the process of inventory change can be effected
Answer: D
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According to the production-smoothing buffer stock model, inventories of a firm's products allow it to supply unexpected demand without having to adjust output immediately. When costs per additional unit produced are increasing, using inventory to smooth production is efficient as long as the savings from not adjusting production exceed the cost of holding inventory. Inventory acts as a buffer stock, absorbing increases or decreases in demand while production remains relatively steady.
If firms are smoothing production, then sales should vary more than
production. If inventories are used as a buffer stock, then high-frequency changes in inventory should be in the opposite direction to sales. Empirical research using aggregate data does not confirm this expectation, however; production varies more than sales, and changes in inventory and sales tend to vary in the same direction. Thus either the production-smoothing buffer stock model is incorrect, or other factors ere preventing empirical confirmation of the smoothing effect.
Most of the research that finds contradictions of production smoothing uses seasonally adjusted aggregate data concerning inventory and sales. It is possible that firms actually do use inventory to smooth production, but the research has failed to detect signs of this activity because the data are too highly aggregated over many firms. But even research at the level of individual companies has failed to confirm the model.
NEW QUESTION # 287
Rural households have more purchasing power than do urban or suburban households at the same income level, since some of the income urban and suburban households use for food and shelter can be used by rural households for other needs.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the statement made above?
- A. All three types of households spend more of their income on food and housing than on all other purchases combined.
- B. Rural households have lower food and housing costs than do either urban or suburban households.
- C. The average rural household includes more people than does the average urban or suburban household.
- D. The median income of urban and suburban households is generally higher than that of rural households.
- E. Suburban households generally have more purchasing power than do either rural or urban households.
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 288
Many managers, believing that temporary employees have no commitment to their company, have been concerned that when a large part of the regular work force Is replaced by temporary employees there will be a dilution of company loyalty. This concern can be set aside, however, since temporary employees in fact have as much company loyalty as the regular employees they replace.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above depends?
- A. The Importance for a manager of preserving company loyalty is greater now than It has ever been before.
- B. Replacing regular employees by temporary employees results in no managerial disadvantages other than the risk of diluting company loyalty.
- C. When regular employees are replaced by temporary employees, there is no diminution in the loyalty of those regular employees who are not replaced.
- D. Companies in which regular employees have not been replaced by temporary employees have no higher a level of company loyalty than those In which they have been replaced.
- E. Managers are Incapable of overcoming declines In company loyalty.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 289
A lottery box contains 8,000 tickets, each of which is red or blue or green. The box contains twice as many blue tickets as red tickets. The number of green tickets is 20 more than the number of red and blue tickets combined. Which of the following Is the best approximation to the probability that the first ticket randomly drawn from the box will be blue?
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- A. Option D
- B. Option E
- C. Option C
- D. Option B
- E. Option A
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION # 290
The first science-fiction novel, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, actually contains very little science, but it masterfully explores the social and moral repercussions of what might happen if certain scientific advances were possible.
- A. but it masterfully explores repercussions, social and moral in nature, of what might happen
- B. but, exploring the social and moral repercussions, it masterfully considers what might happen
- C. but it masterfully explores the social and moral repercussions of what might happen
- D. but it explores in a masterful way the social and moral repercussions of what might happen
- E. but it masterfully explores what are the social and moral repercussions
Answer: C
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This is the most concise, precise, and correct choice. Choice b is wordy, using the phrase in a masterful way instead of masterfully. Choice c uses awkward word order that requires the addition of a verb (considers) because explores is moved to before the subject. Choice d is wordy as the result of moving social and moral from their position directly before the noun they modify. Choice e awkwardly places what are after explores and deletes the important idea of possibility conveyed by of what might happen.
NEW QUESTION # 291
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