Verbal Able to coax a palpable sense of menace from the bucolic backwaters of her native Missouri, Micheaux adroitly shows us, in her latest book, that a surface of idyllic charm can (i) ______ a roiling underbelly of intrigue, corruption, and murder. Blank (i) (A) subsume (B) belie (C) counteracte (D)...

Math Perpendicular lines m and n intersect at point (a, b), where a > b > 0. The slope of line m is between 0 and 1. Which of the following statements MUST be true ? Indicate all such statements. A. The x-intercept of line m is positive. B. The y-intercept...

Your application resume is usually the first opportunity admissions readers have to get to know you, your experience, and your skills. Because of the number of other application components they need to review (both yours and those belonging to the thousands of other applicants), most...

Math The figure shows the graph of the equation y=k–x2y=k–x2, where k is a constant. If the area of triangle ABC is 1818, what is the value of k? Give your answer to the nearest 0.01 Correct Answer – 0.25 – (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion & Explanation  

Verbal The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the United States will eventually produce a gradual increase in the proportion of women in the armed forces and in the variety of women’s assignments, but probably not the dramatic gains for women that might have been expected....

Math x is at least 50% greater than 100, and at most 100 % greater than 100; y is be­tween 20 % and 50% of x inclusive. Which of the following are possible values for y? A. 10 B. 25 C. 40 D. 60 E. 90 F. 100 G. 120 H. 170 I. 200 Correct Answer –...

Verbal The detective’s conviction that there were few inept crimes in her district led her to impute some degree of __________ to every suspect she studied. A. deceit B. acumen C. duplicity D. shrewdness E. evasiveness F. equivocation Correct Answer – B and D – (click and drag your mouse to see the answer) Question Discussion &...

Math For each home in town X, the amount of property tax is p percent of the value of the home. The property tax on a home whose value is $ 45,000 is $ 1,200 Quantity A Quantity B The property tax on a home in Town X whose...

Math From a group of 8 people, it is possible to create exactly 56 different k-person committees. Which of the following could be the value of k? Indicate all such values. A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5 F. 6 G. 7 Correct Answer – C and E – (click and drag your mouse to see the...

Verbal Although the film is rightly judged imperfect by most of today’s critics, the films being created today are __________ it, since its release in 1940 provoked sufficient critical discussion to enhance the intellectual respectability of cinema considerably. A. beholden to B. indebted to C. derivative of D. based on E....