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Professor Akram told his class that the method of student evaluation of teachers is not a valid measure of teaching quality. Students should fill out questionnaires at the end of the semester when courses have been completed.

Which of the following, if true, provides support for Professor Akram proposal ?

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Professor Akram received low ratings from his students.

Students filled out questionnaires after the midterm exam.

Students are interested in teacher evaluation.

Teacher are not obligated to use the survey results.

Student evaluation of teachers is voluntary.

Buy Plenty, a supermarket chain, had successfully implemented an in store promotional campaign based on video messages dashed on a large screen. The purpose of the campaign was to motivate customers to purchase products which they had not planned to buy before they entered to store. The sales manager of Build-It Inc., a chain of do-it-yourself hardware stores, saw the campaign and plans to introduce it in Build-It locations.

The sales manager's plan assumes that

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supermarket and hardware products are the same

products cannot be sold successfully without a video sales campaign

Supermarket chains do not sell hardware products

consumer decision making to buy products does not differ substantially when it comes to both supermarket and hardware products

in-store campaigns are more effective than out-of-store advertising and sales promotion

In winning its bitter, protracted battle to acquire Blue Industries, Inc., Belle industries has fulfilled its goal to lessen its reliance on tobacco holdings, while the $5.2 billion deal may spur more takeover activity in the insurance industry, analysts said.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

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Blue Industries is in the tobacco industry.

Belle industries is in the insurance business.

Blue Industries is in the insurance business.

More divestment takes place in the tobacco industry than in the insurance industry.

More divestment takes place in the insurance industry than in the tobacco industry.

Professor Bilal had the task of giving grades (ranging from A - D in descending value) to her 100 students, based upon the marks they received in three examinations in which the passing mark was 50%. She was instructed to follow the following criteria:

i. All students that scored between 90 and 100% in any two examinations could receive an A grade.

ii. Students that came in the top decile overall were to be awarded an A.

iii. Notwithstanding I and II, if any student failed an exam, the highest he or shed could get was a b.

iv. The top 20 students in the whole year, when the overall exam percentages were averaged, could receive an A.

Given the above criteria, which of the following in the absence of further information, would definitely not be permissible ?

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A. Brown, who got 95% in Chemistry and 95% in Biology, received a B grade.

B. White, who was first in Physics and got 96% in History, received a B grade.

C. Green failed English, but because he ranked ninth overall out of the 100 students, he was awarded an A grade.

D. Black was given an A after she came twentieth out of the 100 students and failed to get above 90% in any of the three examinations.

E. Gray failed his Math exam, but came top in his other two tests and was awarded a B.

Ali is a terrible driver. He has had at least five traffic violations, int he past year.

Which of the following can be said about the above claim ?

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This is an example of an argument that is directed against the source of the claim rather than the claim itself.

The statement is fallacious because it contains an illegitimate appeal to authority.

The above argument obtains its strength from a similarity of two compared situations.

The argument is built upon an assumption that is not stated but rather is concealed.

In the above statements, there is a shifting in the meaning of terms, causing a fallacy of ambiguity.

Many of the convenience foods on the market today, like dry cereals, have less nutrients than natural foods, which were dominant a decade or two ago. Many nutritionists claim that dry cereal gives less nourishment than natural foods like eggs or bacon. Opponents of the nutritionists views state that examination of grade-school students show less nutritional deficiency than in their parents time.

Which of the following, if true, would tend to strengthen the opponents view ?

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Grade-school children reported eating no breakfast at all.

Fewer convenience foods were available to the parents.

Adults claim to eat convenience foods as well as natural foods.

Convenience foods can be digested just as quickly as natural foods.

Consumers are not likely to sacrifice convenience for nutrition.

Contrary to charges made by opponents of the new trade bill, the bill's provisions for taking action against foreign countries that place barriers against American exports, is justified. Opponents should take not that restrictive trade legislation in the 1930s succeeded in improving the U.S. trade balance even though economists were against it.

The author's method of rebutting opponents of the new trade bill is to

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attack the patriotism of its opponents.

attack the opponents characters rather than their claims.

imply an analogy between the new trade bill and previous trade legislation.

suggest that economists were against both pieces, of legislation.

imply that previous legislation also permitted retaliatory action against foreign countries.

An economist was quoted as saying that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will go up next month because of a recent increase in the price of fruit and vegetables.

Which of the following cannot be inferred from the statement ?

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The cost of fruits and vegetables has risen sharply.

Consumers have decreased their consumption of fruits and vegetables.

The cost of fruit and vegetables is a major item in the CPI.

Food cost changes are reflected quickly in the CPI.

Other items that make up the CPI have not significantly decreased in price.

The Monopoly is characterized by absence of or decline in competition. The ABC Company realizes that its operations are in competitive industries.

Which of the following conclusions may be inferred form the above ?

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ABC market is not monopolistic.

Monopoly is defined as one seller in a market.

The ABC Company has no domestic competitors.

The ABC company is publicly owned.

The ABC Company is in a service industry.

If we are doomed to have local drug rehabilitation centers - and society has determined that we are - then society ought to pay for them.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the above argument ?

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Drug rehabilitation centers are too expensive to be locally funded.

Many neighborhood groups oppose rehabilitation centers.

Drug rehabilitation centers are expensive to maintain.

Drug addicts may be unwilling to receive treatment.

A government committee has convinced many groups that local rehabilitation centers are ineffective

Farmers in the North have observed that heavy frost is usually preceded by a full moon somehow generates the frost.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the farmers conviction ?

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The temperature must fall below 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) for frost to occur.

Absence of a cloud cover cools the ground which causes frost.

Farmers are superstitious.

No one has proven that the moon causes frost.

Farmers are not experts in meteorology.

Significant beneficial effect of smoking occur primarily in the area of mental health, and the habit originates in a search for contentment. The life expectancy of our people has increased greatly in recent years; it is possible that the relaxation and contentment and enjoyment produced by smoking has lengthened many lives. Smoking is beneficial.

Which of the following, it true, weaken the above conclusion ?

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That cigarettes are a major health hazard cannot be traced to the willfull act of any human or organization.

The government earns millions of dollars from the tobacco tax and tens of thousands of civilians are employed in the tobacco industry.

The evidence cited in the statement covers only one example of the effects of cigarette smoking.

No mention is made of possible harmful side-effects of smoking.

No statistical evidence has proven link between smoking and longevity.

Pioneers of the motor-car industry realized that if they were going to meet the growing demand for their product, they had to adapt the labor force used in the productive process. Instead of many men working to complete all the stages of one car at a time, they assigned defined tasks to each man which they would repeat on every car.

Which of the following can be concluded form the passage ?

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Early motor car manufacturers intended to increase productivity by applying the principle of division of labor.

The car workers became disgruntled because they were assigned monotonous, repetitive tasks on the assembly line.

Economies of scale enabled early motor companies to expand.

A bad worker would perform the same task badly on each car, leading to many more rejects.

The new production process enabled certain car workers to become specialists in the part of the process to which they were assigned.

In a world of many trading countries, the trade between two countries need not be balanced for the trade of each to be in global balance. Differing demands and productive capabilities among countries will cause a specific country to have trade deficits with some countries and surpluses with other countries.

Which of the following conclusions best summarizes the passage above ?

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A country trade will always be in balance even though it runs a deficit with a single country.

A country trade deficits and surpluses with other countries always balance out.

A country global trade balance is a sign of strength or weakness.

Countries should not be concerned if they have trade deficits because they will balance out in the long run.

A country global trade balance is determined by relative remand and productive capabilities.

Most large retail stores hold sales in the month of January. The original idea of price reduction campaigns in January became popular when it was realized that sales or products would generally slow down following the Christmas rush, were it no for some incentive. The lack of demand could be solved by the simple solution of reducing prices.

There is now an increasing tendency among major department stores in large urban centers to have their January sales being before Christmas, some time before the end of the calendar year. The idea behind this trend is to endeavor to sell the maximum amount of stock at a profit, even if that may not be at the maximum profit.

Which of the following conclusions cannot be drawn from the above ?

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The incidence of early January sales results in the lower holdings of stocks with the corollary of lower stock holding costs.

Demand is a function of price; as you lower price, demand increases.

Major stores seem to think it makes sense to have to January sales campaigns pre-Christmas.

It is becoming less popular to star the January sales in the New Year.

The major department stores do not worry as much about profit maximization as they do about sales maximization.

Ever since I arrived at the college last week, I ve been shocked by the poor behavior of students and the unfriendly attitude of the towns-people, but the professors are very erudite and genuinely helpful. Still, I wonder if i should have come here in the first place.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the above conclusion ?

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Professors are not always helpful to students.

The college numbers over 50,000 students.

The college is far from the student's home.

Not all professors have doctorates.

The narrator was unsure of staying at the college.

The director of the customs service suggested that customs taxes on automobiles not be reduced as planned by the government because of the high incidence of traffic accidents last year.

Which of the above statements weakens the argument above ?

1. Although the traffic accident rate last year was high, it was not appreciably higher than previous years and anyway, compulsory insurance covered most physical damage to automobiles and property.

2. A Commerce Department report showed that the demand for automobiles was highly inelastic. That is, as dealers lowered their prices, sales did not increase appreciably.

3. A study by the Economics Department at Classics University found that most traffic accidents had been caused by human error although it also concluded that an inadequate road network contributed to at least 40 percent of passenger injuries.

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I, but not II and not III.

II, but not I and not III.

I and III, but not II.

II and III, but not I.

I, II and III.

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