List of practice Questions

Points T and U are on a circle with center O.
Column A: The length of segment OT
Column B: The length of segment TU
A box contains 20 marbles, all of which are solid colored; 5 of the marbles are green and 10 of the marbles are red.
Column A: The probability that a marble selected at random from the box will be green
Column B: The probability that a marble selected at random from the box will be neither red nor green
Column A: Eleven thousand plus eleven hundred plus eleven
Column B: 11,111
Column A: \(x\)
Column B: 15
The cost \(c\) of an order of \(n\) special envelopes is given by \(c = ($0.50)n + $15.00\).
Column A: The cost of an order of 500 special envelopes
Column B: $260
Counselor: Every year a popular newsmagazine publishes a list of United States colleges, ranking them according to an overall numerical score that is a composite of ratings according to several criteria. However, the overall scores generally should not be used by students as the basis for deciding to which colleges to apply.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the counselor's recommendation?
A thorough search of Edgar Allan Poe's correspondence has turned up not a single letter in which he mentions his reputed morphine addiction. On the basis of this evidence it is safe to say that Poe's reputation for having been a morphine addict is undeserved and that reports of his supposed addiction are untrue.
Which of the following is assumed by the argument above?
Adelle: The government's program to reduce the unemployment rate in the province of Carthena by encouraging job creation has failed, since the rate there has not changed appreciably since the program began a year ago.
Fran: But the unemployment rate in Carthena had been rising for three years before the program began, so the program is helping.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly counters Fran's objection to Adelle's argument?
\(x^2 - 1 = y\)
\(x = 3\)
Column A: \(y^2\)
Column B: 80
Patel: Although enrollment in the region's high school has been decreasing for several years, enrollment at the elementary school has grown considerably. Therefore, the regional school board proposes building a new elementary school.
Quintero: Another solution would be to convert some high school classrooms temporarily into classrooms for elementary school students.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to support Quintero's alternative proposal?
Which of the following, if true, most helps explain the difference in the rates of decline between 1980 and 1990 in population of puffins and arctic terns, two kinds of seabirds for which sand eels serve as a primary source of food?
Peter: More than ever before in Risland, college graduates with science degrees are accepting permanent jobs in other fields. That just goes to show that scientists in Risland are not being paid enough.
Lila: No, it does not. These graduates are not working in science for the simple reason that there are not enough jobs in science in Risland to employ all of these graduates.
Which of the following, if true in Risland, would most undermine the reasoning in Peter's argument?
CONCERTED:
FORBEARANCE:
COSSETED:
PROBITY:
ESCHEW:
REDOUBTABLE:
IGNITE:
MUTATE:
FRAGMENT:
OSTENSIBLE:
PROLIXITY:
PERSPICACITY: ACUTE::
PLAYFUL: BANTER::