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1. In order to reduce the number of items damaged while in transit to customers, packaging consultants recommended that the TrueSave mail-order company increase the amount of packing material so as to fill any empty spaces in its cartons. Accordingly, TrueSave officials instructed the company's packers to use more packing material than before, and the packers zealously acted on these instructions and used as much as they could. Nevertheless, customer reports of damaged items rose somewhat.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why acting on the consultants' recommendation failed to achieve its goal?
a. The change in packing policy led to an increase in expenditure on packing material and labor.
b. When packing material is compressed too densely, it loses some of its capacity to absorb shock.
c. The amount of packing material used in a carton does not significantly influence the ease with which a customer can unpack the package.
d. Most of the goods that TrueSave ships are electronic products that are highly vulnerable to being damaged in transit.
e. TrueSave has lost some of its regular customers as a result of the high number of damaged items they received.
2. Traverton's city council wants to minimize the city's average yearly expenditures on its traffic signal lights and so is considering replacing the incandescent bulbs currently in use with arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the incandescent bulbs bum out. Compared to incandescent bulbs, LED arrays consume significantly less energy and cost no more to purchase. Moreover, the costs associated with the conversion of existing fixtures so as to accept LED arrays would be minimal.
Which of the following would it be most useful to know in determining whether switching to LED arrays would be likely to help minimize Traverton's yearly maintenance costs?
a. Whether the expected service life of LED arrays is at least as long as that of the currently used incandescent bulbs.
b. Whether any cities have switched from incandescent lights in their traffic signals to lighting elements other than LED arrays.
c. Whether the company from which Traverton currently buys incandescent bulbs for traffic signals also sells LED arrays.
d. Whether Traverton's city council plans to increase the number of traffic signal lights in Traverton.
e. Whether the crews that currently replace incandescent bulbs in Traverton's traffic signals know how to convert the existing fixtures so as to accept LED arrays.
3. A newly discovered painting seems to be the work of one of two seventeenth-century artists, either the northern German Johannes Drechen or the Frenchman Louis Birelle, who sometimes painted in the same style as Drechen. Analysis of the carved picture frame, which has been identified as the painting's original seventeenth-century frame, showed that it is made of wood found widely in northern Germany at the time, but rare in the part of France where Birelle lived. This shows that the painting is most likely the work of Drechen.
Which of the foifowing is an assumption that the argument requires?
a. The frame was made from wood local to the region where the picture was painted.
b. Drechen is unlikely to have ever visited the home region of Birelle in France.
c. Sometimes a painting so resembles others of its era that no expert is able to confidently decide who painted it.
d. The painter of the picture chose the frame for the picture.
e. The carving style of the picture frame is not typical of any specific region of Europe.
4. Suncorp, a new corporation with limited funds, has been clearing large sections of the tropical Amazon forest for cattle ranching. This practice continues even though greater profits can be made from rubber tapping, which does not destroy the forest.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why Suncorp has been pursuing the less profitable of the two economic activities mentioned above?
a. The soil of the Amazon forest is very rich in nutrients that are important in the development of grazing lands.
b. Cattle-ranching operations that are located in tropical climates are more profitable than cattle-ranching operations that are located in cold-weather climates.
c. In certain districts, profits made from cattle ranching are more heavily taxed than profits made from any other industry.
d. Some of the cattle that are raised on land cleared in the Amazon are killed by wildcats.
e. The amount of money required to begin a rubber-tapping operation is twice as high as the amount needed to begin a cattle ranch.
5. Homeowners aged 40 to 50 are more likely to purchase ice cream and are more likely to purchase it in larger amounts than are members of any other demographic group. The popular belief that teenagers eat more ice cream than adults must, therefore, be false.
The argument is flawed primarily because the author
a. fails to distinguish between purchasing and consuming.
b. does not supply information about homeowners in age groups other than 40 to 50.
c. depends on popular belief rather than on documented research findings.
d. does not specify the precise amount of ice cream purchased by any demographic group.
e. discusses ice cream rather than more nutritious and healthful foods.
6. Snowmaking machines work by spraying a mist that freezes immediately on contact with cold air. Because the sudden freezing kills bacteria, QuickFreeze is planning to market a wastewater purification system that works on the same principle. The process works only when temperatures are cold, however, so municipalities using it will still need to maintain a conventional system.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest grounds for a prediction that municipalities will buy QuickFreeze's purification system despite the need to maintain a conventional purification system as well?
a. Bacteria are not the only impurities that must be removed, from wastewater.
b. Many municipalities have old wastewater purification systems that need to be replaced.
c. Conventional wastewater purification systems have not been fully successful in killing bacteria at cold temperatures.
d. During times of warm weather, when it is not in use, QuickFreeze's purification system requires relatively little maintenance.
e. Places where the winters are cold rarely have a problem of water shortage.
7. Editorial: The roof of Northtown's municipal equipment-storage building collapsed under the weight of last week's heavy snowfall. The building was constructed recently and met local building-safety codes in every particular, except that the nails used for attaching roof supports to the building's columns were of a smaller size than the codes specify for this purpose. Clearly, this collapse exemplifies how even a single, apparently insignificant departure from safety standards can have severe consequences.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the editorial's argument?
a. The only other buildings to suffer roof collapses from the weight of the snowfall were older buildings constructed according to less exacting standards than those in the codes.
b. The amount of snow that accumulated on the roof of the equipment-storage building was greater 'than the predicted maximum that was used in drawing up the safety codes.
c. Because the equipment-storage building was not intended for human occupation, some safety-code provisions that would have applied to an office building did not apply to it.
d. The municipality of Northtown itself has the responsibility for ensuring that buildings constructed within its boundaries meet the provisions of the building-safety codes.
e. Because the equipment-storage building was used for storing snow-removal equipment, the building was almost completely empty when the roof collapsed.
8. A provincial government plans to raise the gasoline tax to give people an incentive to drive less, reducing traffic congestion in the long term. However, skeptics point out that most people in the province live in areas where cars are the only viable transportation to jobs and stores and therefore cannot greatly change their driving habits in response to higher gasoline prices.
In light of the skeptics' objection, which of the following, if true, would most logically support the prediction that the government's plan will achieve its goal of reducing traffic congestion?
a. The revenue from the tax will be used to make public transportation a viable means of transportation to jobs and stores for far more people.
b. The tax will encourage many residents to switch to more fuel-efficient cars, reducing air pollution and other problems.
c. Because gasoline has been underpriced for decades, the province has many neighborhoods where cars are the only viable means of transportation.
d. Most residents who cannot greatly change their driving habits could compensate for high gasoline prices by reducing other expenses.
e. Traffic congestion is an especially serious problem for people for whom cars are the only viable means of transportation.
9. Astronomer: Most stars are born in groups of thousands, each star in a group forming from the same parent cloud of gas. Each cloud has a unique, homogeneous chemical composition. Therefore, whenever two stars have the same chemical composition as each other, they must have originated from the same cloud of gas.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the astronomer's argument?
a. In some groups of stars, not every star originated from the same parent cloud of gas.
b. Clouds of gas of similar or identical chemical composition may be remote from each other.
c. Whenever a star forms, it inherits the chemical composition of its parent cloud of gas.
d. Many stars in vastly different parts of the universe are quite similar in their chemical compositions.
e. Astronomers can at least sometimes precisely determine whether a star has'the'same chemical composition as its parents cloud gas.
10. Neuroscientist: Memory evolved to help animals react appropriately to situations they encounter by drawing on the past experience of similar situations. But this does not require that animals perfectly recall every detail of all their experiences. Instead, to function well, memory should generalize from past experiences that are similar to the current one.
The neuroscientist's statements, if true, most strongly support which of the following conclusions?
a. Animals can often react more appropriately than they otherwise would to situations they encounter if they draw on generalizations from past experiences of similar situations.
b. Perfectly recalling every detail of all their past experiences could help at least some animals react more appropriately than they otherwise would to new situations they encounter.
c. Generalizing from past experiences requires clear memories of most if not all the details of those experiences.
d. Recalling every detail of all past experiences would be incompatible with any ability to generalize from those experiences.
e. Animals can often react more appropriately than they otherwise would to situations they encounter if they draw on generalizations from past experiences of similar situations.
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