Percentage
The population of City A increased by 9% from 2015 to 2016. If the 2016 population is k times the 2015 population, what is the value of k?
0.09
0.9
1.09
1.9
C. 1.09
After running the relay race, the batons returned to the box.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) NO CHANGE
B) the batons were returned by the runners
C) the batons were returned
D) the runners returned the batons
D) the runners returned the batons
7x + 5y = 2
The given equation is one equation in a system of two linear equations. If the system of equations has at least one solution, which of the following equations could be the other equation in the system?
I. 10.5x + 7.5y = 3
II. 10.5x − 7.5y = 3
A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II
D) Neither I nor II
C) I and II
Some ethicists hold that the moral goodness of an individual’s actions depends solely on whether the actions themselves are good, irrespective of the context in which they are carried out. Philosopher L. Sebastian Purcell has shown that surviving works of Aztec (Nahua) philosophy express a very different view. Purcell reveals that these works posit an ethical system in which an individual’s actions are judged in light of how well they accord with the individual’s role in society and how well they contribute to the community. To the extent that these works are representative of Aztec thought, Purcell’s analysis suggests that _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) the Aztecs would have disputed the idea that the morality of an individual's actions can be assessed by appealing to standards of behavior that are independent of the individual's social circumstances.
B) the Aztecs would not have accepted the notion that the morality of an individual’s actions can be fairly evaluated by people who do not live in the same society as that individual.
C) actions by members of Aztec society who contributed a great deal to their community could be judged as morally good even if those actions were inconsistent with behaviors the Aztecs regarded as good in all contexts.
D) similar actions performed by people in different social roles in Aztec society would have been regarded as morally equivalent unless those actions
A) the Aztecs would have disputed the idea that the morality of an individual's actions can be assessed by appealing to standards of behavior that are independent of the individual's social circumstances.
A gardener buys two kinds of fertilizer. Fertilizer A contains 60% filler materials by weight and Fertilizer B contains 40% filler materials by weight. Together, the fertilizers bought by the gardener contain a total of 240 pounds of filler materials. Which equation models this relationship, where x is the number of pounds of Fertilizer A and y is the number of pounds of Fertilizer B?
A) 0.4x+0.6y=240
B) 0.6x+0.4y=240
C) 40x+60y=240
D) 60x+40y=240
B) 0.6x+0.4y=240
The mass of object A is 483% of the mass of object B, and the mass of object A is 0.069% of the mass of object C. If the mass of object C is p% of the mass of object B, what is the value of p/1,000?
Hint:
Percent plug–use 100
60000
In addition to its aesthetic importance, there was with jade a spiritual value stemming from its early associations with traditional Taoist beliefs.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) NO CHANGE
B) value, which was spiritual, stemmed
C) jade had spiritual value, stemming
D) a spiritual value stemmed
C) jade had spiritual value, stemming
Vocab Question!
This verb, a synonym of “herald” or “portend,” describes how early story details hint at an eventual conflict.
prefigure
The Cretaceous pterosaur Tupandactylus navigans is known for having an anomalously oversized head crest. Until an almost complete fossil skeleton was found in Brazil, paleontologists had been able to study only skull specimens from T. navigans, though it was presumed that, like other pterosaurs, the species’s primary form of locomotion was powered flight. Examining the fuller skeleton in 2016, Victor Beccari and his team determined that T. navigans had long hind legs, short wings, and an unusually long neck—characteristics that, combined with the creature’s large-crested head, would have made sustained flight difficult and walking upright relatively comfortable. Based on these findings the team suggests that T. navigans likely _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) flew for longer distances than did other pterosaur species that had oversized head crests.
B) had longer wings than other pterosaur species considered to have been comfortable walking.
C) had a smaller head than researchers expected based on the earlier T. navigans skull specimens.
D) flex for shorter distances and spent more time walking than researchers previously though.
D) flex for shorter distances and spent more time walking than researchers previously though.
A group of 10 male students has an average weight of 145 pounds, and a group of 15 female students has an average weight of 105 pounds. What is the average weight, in pounds, of all 25 students?
A) 120.1
B) 121
C) 125
D) 129
B) 121
On a plot of land, 52.0% of the square footage is farmland and the remaining square footage is pasture. There are buildings on exactly 21.5% of the square footage of the farmland, and there are buildings on exactly 14.0% of the square footage of the pasture. If there are buildings on exactly p% of the square footage of the plot of land, what is the value of p%?
Hint:
Percent Plug - Use 100
17.9
Known by many people as the writer of Pygmalion, the career of George Bernard Shaw began in theater criticism.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) NO CHANGE
B) the beginning of George Bernard Shaw’s professional career was in theater criticism.
C) being a theater a critic was the beginning of George Bernard Shaw’s professional career.
D) George Bernard Shaw began his professional career as a theater critic
D) George Bernard Shaw began his professional career as a theater critic
The present-day city of Engels, Russia, was for years the capital of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, one of many nominally autonomous republics within the Soviet Union. Like _____ peer autonomous Soviet socialist republics, the Volga German Republic was established along ethnolinguistic lines: most of the republic’s residents spoke German.
A) it's
B) their
C) its
D) they're
C) its
Consumer psychologists have theorized that the likelihood that people who identify as ethical consumers—meaning that they strive to purchase goods and services with positive or neutral social and ecological effects—will purchase a given product positively correlates with their perception of that product’s effects. In a recent study of the attitudes of self-identified ethical consumers toward purchasing a specific mobile phone coming to market, researchers found that, on average, study participants in their twenties rated the phone’s social and ecological effects much less positively than did participants in other age groups. All other things being equal, if consumer psychologists’ theory is correct, this finding suggests that _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) the phone is less appealing to ethical consumers in their twenties than other similar phones on the market are.
B) ethical consumers in their twenties are less likely to purchase the phone than ethical consumers in other age groups are.
C) there is not a meaningful difference in the likelihood of purchasing the phone among ethical consumers in different age groups.
D) ethical consumers in their twenties are more likely than ethical consumers in other age groups to consider a phone’s social and ecological effects when deciding whether to purchase that phone.
B) ethical consumers in their twenties are less likely to purchase the phone than ethical consumers in other age groups are.
If a is the mean and b is the median of nine consecutive integers, what is the value of |a - b|?
Zero
The speeds of particles A, B, and C are a meters per second, b meters per second, and c meters per second, respectively. If the speed of particle A is 6,000% of the speed of particle C and the speed of particle C is 0.008% of the speed of particle B, which expression represents the value of a + b in terms of c?
A. 12,560c
B. 6,125c
C. 6,008c
D. 1,850c
A. 12,560c
The Grootbos florilegium in South Africa contains a collection of botanical paintings, with each painting depicting a local plant species in exquisite detail. The florilegium includes a vignette painting by contributing artist Sibonelo Chiliza. Unlike most paintings in the florilegium, ________
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) Chiliza contextualizes a plant within an ecosystem in his vignette.
B) the contextualization of a plant within an ecosystem occurs in Chiliza’s vignette.
C) a plant’s ecosystem is contextualized in Chiliza’s vignette.
D) Chiliza’s vignette contextualizes a plant within an ecosystem
D) Chiliza’s vignette contextualizes a plant within an ecosystem
The function g is a quadratic function. In the xy-plane, the graph of y = g(x) has a vertex at (-1, -4) and passes through the points (-2, -43) and (1, -160). What is the value of g(0) − g(2)?
A) -121
B) 0
C) 117
D) 312
D) 312
The practice of logging (cutting down trees for commercial and other uses) is often thought to be at odds with forest conservation (the work of preserving forests). However, a massive study in forest management and preservation spanning 700,000 hectares in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest calls that view into question. So far, results of the study suggest that forest plots that have undergone limited logging (the careful removal of a controlled number of trees) may be more robust than plots that haven’t been logged at all. These results, in turn, suggest that _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) logging may be useful for maintaining healthy forests, provided it is limited.
B) other forest management strategies are more effective than limited logging.
C) as time passes, it will be difficult to know whether limited logging has any benefits.
D) the best way to support forest health may be to leave large forests entirely untouched.
A) logging may be useful for maintaining healthy forests, provided it is limited.
x, 24, 32, 33, 27, 42, 45
The list above consists of seven integers that increase in value from left to right. If the range of the list is equal to one of the values in the list, what is the greatest possible value of x?
A) 23
B) 21
C) 12
D) 0
B) 21
The value of an autographed baseball increased by 178% from the end of 2012 to the end of 2013 and then decreased by 21% from the end of 2013 to the end of 2014. What was the net percentage increase in the value of the autographed baseball from the end of 2012 to the end of 2014?
A. 119.62%
B. 140.62%
C. 157.00%
D. 236.38%
A. 119.62%
A government body officially known as the Althing, ________________
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) 930 CE was the year when Iceland’s parliament, one of the oldest parliaments in the world, first met.
B) the world’s oldest parliaments include one which first met in 930 CE, Iceland’s
C) he first meeting of one of the oldest parliaments in the world, Iceland’s, was in 930 CE.
D) Iceland’s parliament, is one of the oldest in the world, first meeting in 930 CE
D) Iceland’s parliament, is one of the oldest in the world, first meeting in 930 CE
The following text is adapted from Matthew Arnold’s 1869 nonfiction book Culture and Anarchy.
The Times [a British newspaper], replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behaviour of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal is that every one should be free to do and to look just as he likes. But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like the rule by which he fashions himself; but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A) It presents an opinion with which the author disagrees.
B) It asserts that the English are not as well known for their sense of taste as they ought to be.
C) It implies that opinions regarding culture evolve over time.
D) It details an example that supports the author’s primary claim.
A) It presents an opinion with which the author disagrees.
Even with the widespread adoption of personal computers, many authors still choose to write and revise their novels by hand and only then transcribe the final version on a computer. It may be tempting to speculate about how a novel written this way would be affected if it had been exclusively typed instead, but each novel is a unique entity resulting from a specific set of circumstances. Therefore, _______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) in order to increase their efficiency, authors who currently write their novels largely by hand should instead work only on a computer.
B) authors who do most of their drafting and revising by hand likely have more success than those who work entirely on a computer.
C) novels written by hand take less time to produce, on average, than novels written on a computer do.
D) there is no way to reasonably evaluate how a work would be different if it had been written by other means.
D) there is no way to reasonably evaluate how a work would be different if it had been written by other means.
A student has an average (arithmetic mean) score of 88 for the first 3 tests in a class. What is the lowest score that the students can earn on the fourth test to have an average score of at least 90 for the 4 tests?
A) 92
B) 83
C) 94
D) 96
D) 96