Enrique did not take Marisol seriously when she told him she was going to bed to sleep for a week; she was prone to _____________?
a) earnestness
b)belligerence
c)simile
d) hyperbole
e)understatement
The answer is D, hyberbole.
An empty pool has the capacity to hold 270 cubic feet of water. A particular hose fills this pool with water at a rate 25 cubic feet per minute. If the hose is placed into the empty pool and turned on, approximately what percent of the pool will be filled with water after 1 hour?
Please choose from one of the following options.
A) 10 %
B) 44 %
C) 56 %
D) 93 %
C, 56%
Although some think the terms "bug" and "insect" are _______ , the former term actually refers to _______ group of insects.
Choose two words for the blanks:
(A) parallel . . an identical
(B) precise . . an exact
(C) interchangeable . . a particular
(D) exclusive . . a separate
(E) useful . . a useless
The answer is C, interchangeable..a particular.
A high school's graduation rate is defined to be the percentage of the senior class that graduates. Last year 406 of Sagamore High School's 452 seniors graduated. This year the school expects the previous year's graduation rate to increase by approximately 2 percentage points. If there are 436 students in this year's senior class, which of the following best approximates the number of seniors that Sagamore High School expects to graduate this year?
A) 390 students
B) 400 students
C) 410 students
D) 420 students
B, 400 students
"One of the most common types of mistakes that inexperienced physicians make is misreading symptoms, another that occurs about as frequently is recommending inappropriate treatment".
Choose the correction:
(A) symptoms, another that occurs
(B) symptoms; another one that occurs
(C) symptoms, the other, and it occurs
(D) symptoms; another one which is occurring
(E) symptoms and also occurring
The answer is B. This sentence illustrates a comma splice, the incorrect use of a comma to connect two complete sentences.
The fennec fox hunts at night, digs out dens in sand, and mate for life.
A) No change
B) Mated
C) Mates
D) Has mated
C, mates
A software distributor charges $41 per license of a particular utility. The distributor offers a 10% discount on each license after the first 20. How much would a business pay to buy 40 licenses of the utility?
$1,558
"Looking at the context of the editorial, the words "abrupt" and "blitz" are meant to place the redevelopment program in an unfavorable light".
Choose the correction:
(A) Looking at the context of the editorial
(B) In the context of the editorial
(C) When the editorial's context is looked at
(D) Considering its context
(E) Examining the editorial's context
The answer is B. The problem with this sentence is that there is no noun that the underlined phrase modifies.
(2x-3)(x+4)=0
Let x=a and x=b be the solutions to the equation above.
What is the value of -a-b?
5/2
Dyami earns a 4% commission for the first $30,000 of sales he makes per month. He earns a 5% commission for the portion of his sales over $30,000. If Dyami sells $38,000 worth of merchandise in a month, how much will he earn in commissions, in dollars?
$1,600
Read the passage and answer the question:
(1) Advertisements are present wherever we go. (2) They enter our houses in newspapers, magazines, and on our television screens. (3) Television advertisements are used not only to sell products but, more importantly, to sell ideas. (4) It is in selling ideas that ads have the most significant impact. (5) They interrupt most television programs every few minutes. (6) Many ads imply that if we buy specific products then we will be happy. (7) An example of this strategy is an ad in which a woman is shown driving her family in a new car. (8) She has a smile on her face, a new car will bring people happiness.
Question: Sentence 5 would make the most sense if placed after
(A) Sentence 1
(B) Sentence 2
(C) Sentence 5
(D) Sentence 6
(E) Sentence 7
The answer is B.
(2x + 5) (-mx + 9) = 0
In the equation above, m is a constant.
If the equation has the solutions x= -5/2 and x= 3/2, what is the value of "m?"
6
Layla and Nathan each sent out college recruitment e-mails to different prospective students. Students followed a link to get more information from 22% of Layla's 400 e-mails and from 60 out of 350 of Nathan's e-mails.
To the nearest percent, what percent of the total students clicked on the link from the e-mails?
20%