Verbal Instead of relying on general tax revenue, as it now does, the government should rely more heavily on passenger fares to finance public bus and train service. In order for public transportation to be maintained without cutting service, users should pay all the operating costs...

Math In the figure, what is the area of triangle BCD given that the area of triangle ADE is 16 & the area of triangle CDE is 12?A) 12B) 16C) 20D) 28E) Cannot be determined   Correct Answer - D  - (click and drag your mouse to see...

Verbal The past decade has seen a statistically significant uptick in reports of the bacterial strains known as “super-bugs,” so called not because of enhanced virulence, but because of their resistance to many antimicrobial agents. In particular, researchers have become alarmed about NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase),...

Math A manufacturer makes umbrellas at the cost of c dollars per umbrella, and sells them at the retail price of r dollars each. How many umbrellas can it afford to sell at the below-cost rate of b dollars per umbrella and still make a 100%...

Verbal The headmaster at Leawood Day School noticed that scores on math tests were lower this year than in previous years. This year, all students took math courses during the first period of the school day; in years past, they had taken math during the final...

Math   The circle with center E has radius r.\({ED = \frac{{r}}{{2}}}\) Quantity A Quantity B The area of  \({\triangle EBD}\) The area of the shaded region A) Quantity A is greater.B) Quantity B is greater.C) The two quantities are equal.D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.   Correct Answer -...

Verbal Verbal patterns in four works known to be written by a certain author were compared to those in a work of uncertain authorship sometimes attributed to that author. Many patterns were studied, including frequency of specific words and recurrence of certain phrases. The questioned work...

Math The range of the heights of the female students in a certain class is 13.2 inches, and the range of the heights of the male students in the class is 15.4 inches.Which of the following statements individually provide(s) sufficient additional information to determine the range of the...

Verbal Economic competition among nations may lead to new forms of economic protectionism that hearken back to the mercantilism of an earlier age: there are signs today that such protectionism is indeed _______ .❑ evanescent❑ resurgent❑ recrudescent❑ transitory❑ controversial❑ inimical     Correct Answer - B, C  - (click...

Verbal The author presents the life of Zane Grey with (i) __________ unusual in a biographer: he is not even convinced that Grey was a good writer. Blank (i) (A) a zeal (B) a deftness (C) a detachment (D) an eloquence (E) an imaginativeness     Correct Answer - C  - (click and drag your...