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1. A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill
as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 mph downhill, how long will it
take to travel 45 miles on flat land? - ANSWER 1/2 hour
2. Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side
measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and
has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5
units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box? -
ANSWER 16 units
3. Each August, a restaurant's rent is adjusted to the cost of living index. The
rent has been 1,550 a month, and the cost of living index for this August was
3.7%. What is the new rent per month? - ANSWER $1,607.35
4. There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and
randomly takes one marble. What is the probability pf that child getting a
green marble? - ANSWER .66
5. Before being painted, a concrete play area was marked off into squares and
then into triangles. For the square shown, what is the area of the triangular
part labeled XYZ? - ANSWER 32sqft
,6. if the population of a certain city increased 25% in 2 years, the new
population was what percent of the old? - ANSWER 125%
7. a printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. a second press can
print 15,000 copies in 60 minutes. how many more copies per minute will
the faster press print than the slower press? - ANSWER 3,000
8. Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If Ian received 125,000, and
Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive? - ANSWER
7/8
9. Small most nearly means - ANSWER a little
10.Prestige most nearly means - ANSWER status
11.we will long remember our perilous journey - ANSWER hazardous
12.Inept most nearly means - ANSWER silly
13.Oppressive most nearly means - ANSWER painful
14."Complexity" most nearly means - ANSWER intricacy
15.Nurture most nearly means - ANSWER cultivate
16.void most nearly means - ANSWER empty
17.Fervently most nearly means - ANSWER passionately
18.Devout most nearly means - ANSWER pious
19.Erratically most nearly means - ANSWER irregularly
20.sustain most nearly means - ANSWER tolerate
21.They "consoled" each other after the accident. - ANSWER solaced
22.the cashier negated the charge of the item - ANSWER nullified
23.crass most nearly means - ANSWER crude
,24.Peruse most nearly means - ANSWER study
25.the lens of the eye focuses light rays as they enter the eye. muscles around
the lens react to light and change the shape of the lens by expanding or
contracting. certain diseases or injury to the lens of the eye can result in
blurry vision. according to the paragraph,the lens of the eye is used to -
ANSWER focus light
26.Your heart's mitral valve does an awfully big job. Letting blood from the left
atrium of the heart into the left ventricle without losing a drop is one of the
toughest tasks in the circulatory system. In fact, if the system was suddenly
opened at that point the force of the valve closing with send blood 5 feet into
the air In this passage the author's purpose is to? - ANSWER convince the
readers of the stress on the mitral valve
27.riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit america's largest national
park--wrangell-st.elias-- 13 million acres of scenic beauty. copper first drew
prospectors to this part of alaska. from 1911 to 1938, the kennicott mine
produced 200 million tons of it. now a mecca for tourists, the town of
kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. which of the
following illustrates the correct sequence of events? - ANSWER copper
drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourists attraction
28.Physicists seek out those features of nature that are simple and universal.
The secret of their success is not so much a matter of finding answers as it is
asking the right questions. The trick is keeping the questions simple and
sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be answered
unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by
logical thinking. which of the following questions is most clearly an
example of the kind discussed in the paragraph? - ANSWER how fast do
stones of a particular size fall?
29.An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless.
For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and
marshals up an army of antibodies to fight these substances. For many
allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine to flood into
the bloodstream. It is overabundance of histamine that causes allergic
symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing. the passage states all of
, the following about allergies except - ANSWER medical science does not
fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to certain substances
30.a period of time is usually measured by comparing it with another period of
time.for example, a year on mercury is equal to 88 earth days. a year on
uranus is approximately 348 mercury years. according to the passage, the
way time is usually measured shows that the time is - ANSWER calendar-
based
31.weather radar is a great help to pilots in detecting thunderstorms. however,
pilots must be aware that radar does not reliably detect hail. radar operates
by transmitting a pulse of radio energy and receiving the pulse again after it
is reflected by a target. large raindrops, the kind found in intense
thunderstorms, are the best radar reflectors and will show up as intense
targets on the screen. hail is somewhat porous and has an uneven structure; it
tends to absorb or scatter the radar pulse rather than reflect it back to the
antenna. according to the paragraph, weather radar does not reliably. detect
hail because of - ANSWER its penetrable surface
32.according to mark twain, october is a particularly dangerous month to
speculate in stocks. others include july, january, september, april, november,
may, march,june, december, august, and february. what was mark twain's
point? - ANSWER october is an especially bad month for speculating in
stocks
33.Physical sound energy is transmitted through the external ear ( the pinna )
and the middle ear to the inner ear, where it creates pressure waves in the
fluid of the cochlea. there, hairs on the organ of corti are moved by the
pressure waves. the movement of the hairs starts the process by which nerve
impulses are generated. where is the organ of corti located? - ANSWER in
the inner ear
34.An analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows that separate quotas
were established for crude oil and for petroleum products. Petroleum
products were divided into light products mostly gasoline jet fuel and
desolate and heavy or residual fuel oil products. The quota for crude oil
imports was set at approximately 10% of crude oil consumption the passage
implies which of the following about the oil quota program? - ANSWER the
quota for residual fuel oil products was the same as for crude oil products