List of practice Questions

Neither my mother nor my father, both of whom are English professors, agree with my contention that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is overrated.
A number of military personnel who served in Operation Desert Storm has encountered a series of unexplainable symptoms that were attributed to Gulf War syndrome.
Although Smith once championed the charity, he changed his mind after journalist linked its origin to a corrupt individual.
A swarm of desert honeybees, a phenomenon seen by few of the select scientists and entomologists, occur when a portion of the colony leave the current nest to find a new home.
During the State of the Union address every February the president announced the amount of the new programs the administration planned to create and the amounts of money it invested in each one.
For the past five years, US consumption of eggs has decreased. The National Egg Council plans to reverse this trend by launching an advertising campaign extolling the healthful benefits of eggs. Which one of the following, if true, will provide the strongest support for the National Egg Council's plan?
In an effort to reduce the amount of fat and the number of calories that they consume, many citizens of the United States are making significant changes in their diets. For them staying in shape and looking fit now take precedence over eating foods that are filling and that taste good. It is likely that if they maintain these new priorities with consistent regard for other health issues, the length and quality of their lives will increase significantly. Which one of the following is an assumption upon which the argument is based?
Singing in the Rain Umbrella Corp. plans to institute a marketing campaign in which it sells umbrellas at the exits of subway stations during rainy weather. The umbrellas will be sold at a price that is slightly higher than normal. The company thinks the sales of these higher - priced umbrellas will be greater than normal sales of umbrellas, because the purchasers of these umbrellas will be forced to buy them if they do not want to get wet. The author assumes which of the following about the purchasers of the umbrellas in predicting the sales of the umbrellas?
A leading cement manufacture has been having problems processing manufacturing and delivery records since it expanded its operations. To solve this problem it plans to install a new platform on its central computing system which will run its tracking program five times faster than the current system does. Which one of the following castes the most serious doubt on the manufacture's plan?
Critics insist that government regulation of business has made it more difficult for American businesses to operate profitably and has destroyed their ability to compete with foreign producers of consumer goods. This argument is not compelling. Government regulation of business was never as active in this nation as it was between the years 1975 and 1985, and in those years the average net worth of American family increased more than it had in any previous decade. The author's argument would be most seriously weakened if it were true that
A recession is not caused by any economic force other than nation wide loss of confidence. If the economy is perceived as being unstable, banks are conservative in lending money, investors take fewer risks and hence economic growth is slowed. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument above.
In 1980, the Netherlands agreed to limit fishing in certain Atlantic Ocean beds, but in 1981, they terminated the agreement.
While brokers, as a rule, are not permitted to know executive access codes, in many instances they are widely known.
Despite seeming tame and intelligent, the state troopers had no choice but to shoot the loose Gorilla.
The number of workers have increased steadily each year.
The commercial airliner flew too close to the military base, an act that the army saw as a violation of its air space.
Of the 66 people in a certain auditorium, at most 6 people have their birthdays in any one given month. Does at least one person in the auditorium have a birthday in January?
(1) More of the people in the auditorium have their birthday in February than in March.
(2) Five of the people in the auditorium have their birthday in March.
In a certain classroom, there are 80 books, of which 24 are fiction and 23 are written in Spanish. How many of the fiction books are written in Spanish?
(1) Of the fiction books, there are 6 more that are not written in Spanish than are written in Spanish.
(2) Of the books written in Spanish, there are 5 more nonfiction books than fiction books.
If p is the perimeter of rectangle Q, what is the value of p?
(1) Each diagonal of rectangle Q has length 10.
(2) The area of rectangle Q is 48.
John and Tim went to the bank and he made a deposit.
Although the average Girl Scout joins the organization at age 14, they have already been Brownies for several years.
Does the integer k have at least three different positive prime factors?
(1) \( \frac{k}{15} \) is an integer.
(2) \( \frac{k}{10} \) is an integer.
If X and Y are points in a plane and X lies inside the circle C with center O and radius 2, does Y lie inside circle C?
(1) The length of line segment XY is 3.
(2) The length of line segment OY is 1.5.
If Paula drove the distance from her home to her college at an average speed that was greater than 70 kilometers per hour, did it take her less than 3 hours to drive this distance?
(1) The distance that Paula drove from her home to her college was greater than 200 kilometers.
(2) The distance that Paula drove from her home to her college was less than 205 kilometers.
Of the companies surveyed about the skills they required in prospective employees, 20 percent required both computer skills and writing skills. What percent of the companies surveyed required neither computer skills nor writing skills?
(1) Of those companies surveyed that required computer skills, half required writing skills.
(2) 45 percent of the companies surveyed required writing skills but not computer skills.