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Analytical Reasoning

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1 . _{7 persons live in a street, having houses in line. Consider the following:}

1. A lives in the corner’s house 2. C is between E and G 3. There is 1 house between D and F 4. F is neighbor of G 5. There are two houses between A and G Question:Who lives in the second corner?

A. _B B. _C

C. _D D. _E

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2. Answer & Explanation

3. Answer: Option C

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2 . _{Should present trends continue, within five years it will be cheaper for}

audio enthusiasts to build their stereo systems around sets of sepa-rate, high quality tuners and amplifiers, rather than around integrated tuners and amplifiers, known as receivers. While receivers have been considered the necessary compromise for those with budget

restrictions, recent trends in retail pricing seem destined to change that perception. The average retail price of a high-quality tuner has declined at a rate of 20 percent each of the last two years, and the average retail price of a high-quality amplifier has declined at the rate of 35 percent for each of those years. At the same time, the average retail price of integrated receivers has declined only 12 percent. Question : In evaluating the claim made in the passage above, information about which of the following would be most useful?

A. _{the average life expectancy of}

stereo tuners as compared to the average life expectancy of stereo amplifiers

B. _{the number of integrated}

receivers sold each year and the number of sets of separate tuners and amplifiers sold each year

C. _{the present average retail price}

of an integrated receiver and the present average retail price of a tuner and amplifier set

D. _{the percentage of audio}

enthusiasts who prefer separate tuner and amplifier sets to integrated receivers

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3 . _{An obedience school is experimenting with a new training system. To}

test the system, three trainers (Luqman, Mehreen, and Omama) and three dogs (Lassie, Mugs, and Onyx) are assigned to three different rooms, one trainer, and one dog per room. The initial assignment is as follows:Room 1: Luqman and LassieRoom 2: Mehreen and MugsRoom 3: Omama and OnyxThe participants have learned five different com-mands, each of which they will execute as soon as the command is given.Command W requires the trainer in Room 1 to move to Room 2, the trainer in Room 2 to move to Room 3, and the trainer in Room 3 to move to Room 1.Command X requires the dogs in Rooms 1 and 2 to change places.Command Y requires the dogs in Rooms 2 and 3 to change places.Command Z requires the dogs in Rooms 3 and 1 to change places.Command A requires each of the dogs to go to the room containing the trainer it was matched with in the initial assignment. Question : Which of the following sequences of commands could result in a final arrangement in which Mehreen and Onyx are in Room 1, Omama and Mugs are in Room 2, and Luqman and Lassie are in Room 3?

A. _{Z, W, X} B. _{W, Y, Z}

C. _{W, A, Y, W} D. _{W, Z, W, X}

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test the system, three trainers (Luqman, Mehreen, and Omama) and three dogs (Lassie, Mugs, and Onyx) are assigned to three different rooms, one trainer, and one dog per room. The initial assignment is as follows:Room 1: Luqman and LassieRoom 2: Mehreen and MugsRoom 3: Omama and OnyxThe participants have learned five different com-mands, each of which they will execute as soon as the command is given.Command W requires the trainer in Room 1 to move to Room 2, the trainer in Room 2 to move to Room 3, and the trainer in Room 3 to move to Room 1.Command X requires the dogs in Rooms 1 and 2 to change places.Command Y requires the dogs in Rooms 2 and 3 to change places.Command Z requires the dogs in Rooms 3 and 1 to change places.Command A requires each of the dogs to go to the room

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containing the trainer it was matched with in the initial assignment. Question : Which of the following sequences of commands will yield a final arrangement in which Omama and Lassie are in Room 2?

A. _{X, Y, W} B. _{X, W, W}

C. _{C. Z, W, A} D. _{X, Y, A, W}

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15. Answer: Option B

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test the system, three trainers (Luqman, Mehreen, and Omama) and three dogs (Lassie, Mugs, and Onyx) are assigned to three different rooms, one trainer, and one dog per room. The initial assignment is as follows:Room 1: Luqman and LassieRoom 2: Mehreen and MugsRoom 3: Omama and OnyxThe participants have learned five different com-mands, each of which they will execute as soon as the command is given.Command W requires the trainer in Room 1 to move to Room 2, the trainer in Room 2 to move to Room 3, and the trainer in Room 3 to move to Room 1.Command X requires the dogs in Rooms 1 and 2 to change places.Command Y requires the dogs in Rooms 2 and 3 to change places.Command Z requires the dogs in Rooms 3 and 1 to change places.Command A requires each of the dogs to go to the room containing the trainer it was matched with in the initial assignment. Question :Which of the following commands or series of commands will yield a final arrangement in which Onyx is in Room 2?

A. _{One call of W} B. _{Two calls of X}

C. _{Two calls of W followed by one}

call of A

D. _{Two calls of W followed by one}

call of Z

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test the system, three trainers (Luqman, Mehreen, and Omama) and three dogs (Lassie, Mugs, and Onyx) are assigned to three different rooms, one trainer, and one dog per room. The initial assignment is as follows:Room 1: Luqman and LassieRoom 2: Mehreen and MugsRoom 3: Omama and OnyxThe participants have learned five different

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com-mands, each of which they will execute as soon as the command is given.Command W requires the trainer in Room 1 to move to Room 2, the trainer in Room 2 to move to Room 3, and the trainer in Room 3 to move to Room 1.Command X requires the dogs in Rooms 1 and 2 to change places.Command Y requires the dogs in Rooms 2 and 3 to change places.Command Z requires the dogs in Rooms 3 and 1 to change places.Command A requires each of the dogs to go to the room containing the trainer it was matched with in the initial assignment. Question :If the participants in the initial assignment are given exactly one command, Command W, which of the following will be true in the resulting arrangement?

A. _{Omama and Mugs will be in the}

same room

B. _{Mehreen will be in Room 3}

C. _{Mehreen and Lassie will be in}

the same room

D. _{Luqman will be in Room 3}

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7 . _{There are those who claim that reductions in the spending on and}

deployment of weapons systems would result in a so-called “climate of peace,” thereby diminishing the likelihood of armed conflict. The facts show otherwise. These self-proclaimed pacifists are either the victims or the propagators of a false argument. Question :Which of the

following is an assumption underlying the conclusion of the passage above?

A. _{An established correlation}

between greater spending on weapons systems and a

decreased incidence of conflict will persist

B. _{Military actions involving our}

forces can be instigated by any number of different factors

C. _{The increased defense}

spending of the past 10 years has lessened the need for significant military expenditure in future decades

D. _{At the present time,}

state-of-the-art weapons systems and the augmentation of combat personnel are equally important to a nation’s defense

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24. Answer: Option A

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8 . _{The supervisor of a commuter airline is scheduling pilots to fly the}

round-trip from City X to City Y. The trip takes only two hours, and the airline has one round-trip flight in the morning and one round-trip flight in the afternoon, each day, Monday through Friday. Pilots must be scheduled in accordance with the following rules:Only W, X, and Y can fly the morning flight. Only V, X, and Z can fly the afternoon flight. No pilot may fly twice on the same day. No pilot may fly on two consecutive days. X must fly the Wednesday morning flight. Z must fly the Tuesday afternoon flight. Question : If W is not scheduled to fly at all during the week, all of the following must be true EXCEPT

A. _{X flies on Monday morning} B. _{V flies on Monday afternoon} C. _{Y flies on Thursday morning} D. _{Z flies on Friday afternoon} View Answer

28. Answer: Option D

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round-trip from City X to City Y. The trip takes only two hours, and the airline has one round-trip flight in the morning and one round-trip flight in the afternoon, each day, Monday through Friday. Pilots must be scheduled in accordance with the following rules:Only W, X, and Y can fly the morning flight. Only V, X, and Z can fly the afternoon flight. No pilot may fly twice on the same day. No pilot may fly on two consecutive days. X must fly the Wednesday morning flight. Z must fly the Tuesday afternoon flight. Question :If X flies only one morning flight during the week, which of the following must be true?

A. _{W flies exactly two days during}

the week

B. _{X flies exactly three days during}

the week

C. _{Y flies only one day during the}

week

D. _{Z flies Monday afternoon and}

Friday afternoon

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round-trip from City X to City Y. The trip takes only two hours, and the airline has one round-trip flight in the morning and one round-trip flight in the afternoon, each day, Monday through Friday. Pilots must be scheduled in accordance with the following rules:Only W, X, and Y can fly the morning flight. Only V, X, and Z can fly the afternoon flight. No pilot may fly twice on the same day. No pilot may fly on two consecutive days. X must fly the Wednesday morning flight. Z must fly the Tuesday afternoon flight. Question :If X flies on Friday morning, which of the following must be true?

A. _{X does not fly on Monday}

afternoon

B. _{V flies on Friday afternoon}

C. _{W flies Thursday morning} D. _{Y flies Thursday morning} View Answer

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round-trip from City X to City Y. The trip takes only two hours, and the airline has one round-trip flight in the morning and one round-trip flight in the afternoon, each day, Monday through Friday. Pilots must be scheduled in accordance with the following rules:Only W, X, and Y can fly the morning flight. Only V, X, and Z can fly the afternoon flight. No pilot may fly twice on the same day. No pilot may fly on two consecutive days. X must fly the Wednesday morning flight. Z must fly the Tuesday afternoon flight. Question : Which of the following must be true?

A. _{W flies the Monday morning}

flight

B. _{X flies the Monday afternoon}

flight

C. _{Y flies the Tuesday morning}

flight

D. _{Z flies the Thursday afternoon}

flight

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12 . _{Three men (Tom, Peter and Jack) and three women (Eliza, Anne and}

Karen) are spending a few months at a hillside. They are to stay in a row of nine cottages, each one living in his or her own cottage. There are no others staying in the same row of houses. 1. Anne, Tom and Jack do not want to stay in any cottage, which is at the end of the row. 2. Eliza and Anne are unwilling to stay besides any occupied cottage. 3. Karen is next to Peter and Jack. 4. Between Anne and Jacks cottage there is just one vacant house. 5. None of the girls occupy adjacent cottages. 6. The house occupied by Tom is next to an end cottage. Question : Which among these statement(s) are true? I. Anne is

between Eliza and Jack. II. At the most four persons can have occupied cottages on either side of them.III. Tom stays besides Peter

A. _{I only} B. _{II only}

C. _{I and III only} D. _{II and III only}

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Karen) are spending a few months at a hillside. They are to stay in a row of nine cottages, each one living in his or her own cottage. There are no others staying in the same row of houses. 1. Anne, Tom and Jack do not want to stay in any cottage, which is at the end of the row. 2. Eliza and Anne are unwilling to stay besides any occupied cottage. 3. Karen is next to Peter and Jack. 4. Between Anne and Jacks cottage there is just one vacant house. 5. None of the girls occupy adjacent cottages. 6. The house occupied by Tom is next to an end cottage. Question : How many of them occupy cottages next to a vacant cottage?

A. ₂ B. ₃

C. ₄ D. ₅

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Karen) are spending a few months at a hillside. They are to stay in a row of nine cottages, each one living in his or her own cottage. There are no others staying in the same row of houses. 1. Anne, Tom and Jack do not want to stay in any cottage, which is at the end of the row. 2. Eliza and Anne are unwilling to stay besides any occupied cottage. 3. Karen is next to Peter and Jack. 4. Between Anne and Jacks cottage there is just one vacant house. 5. None of the girls occupy adjacent cottages. 6. The house occupied by Tom is next to an end cottage. Question : Which of the above statements can be said to have been derived from two other statements?

A. _{Statement 1} B. _{Statement 2}

C. _{Statement 3} D. _{Statement 5}

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1. A lives in the corner’s house 2. C is between E and G 3. There is 1 house between D and F 4. F is neighbor of G 5. There are two houses between A and G Question:There are __________ houses between B and E?

A. ₀ B. ₁

C. ₂ D. ₃

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house between D and F 4. F is neighbor of G 5. There are two houses between A and G Question:__________ is neighbor of A?

A. _G B. _C

C. _E D. _F

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1. A lives in the corner’s house 2. C is between E and G 3. There is 1 house between D and F 4. F is neighbor of G 5. There are two houses between A and G Question:Who lives between B and G?

A. _C B. _D

C. _E D. _F

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1. A lives in the corner’s house 2. C is between E and G 3. There is 1 house between D and F 4. F is neighbor of G 5. There are two houses between A and G Question:Who lives in the middle?

A. _C B. _G

C. _E D. _F

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Analytical Reasoning

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19 . _{In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio}

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logically conveys which of the following?

A. _{Radio advertising is the most}

important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles.

B. _{Maximum name recognition in}

Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.

C. _{Saturation radio advertising}

reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles.

D. _{For maximum name}

recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising.

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20 . _{All German philosophers, except for Marx, are idealists. From which of}

the following can the statement above be most properly inferred?

A. _{Except for Marx, if someone is}

an idealist philosopher, then he or she is German.

B. _{Marx is the only non-German}

philosopher who is an idealist.

C. _{If a German is an idealist, then}

he or she is a philosopher, as long as he or she is not Marx.

D. _{Aside from the philosopher}

Marx, if someone is a German, then he or she is an idealist.

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21 . _{Time and again it has been shown that students who attend colleges}

with low faculty/student ratios get the best-rounded education. As a result, when my children are ready to attend college, I'll be sure they attend a school with a very small student population. Which of the following, if true, identifies the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?

A. _{A very small student population}

does not by itself; ensure a low faculty/student ratio

B. _{Intelligence should be}

considered the result of childhood environment, not advanced education.

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C. _{Parental desires and}

preferences rarely determine a child's choice of a college or university.

D. _{Students must take advantage}

of the low faculty/student ratio by intentionally choosing small classes.

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22 . _{The increase in the number of newspaper articles exposed as}

fabrications serves to bolster the contention that publishers are more interested in boosting circulation than in printing the truth. Even minor publications have staffs to check such obvious fraud. The argument above assumes that

A. _{newspaper stories exposed as}

fabrications are a recent phenomenon.

B. _{everything a newspaper prints}

must be factually verifiable.

C. _{the publishers of newspapers}

are the people who decide what to print in their newspapers.

D. _{only recently have newspapers}

admitted to publishing

intentionally fraudulent stories.

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23 . _{The rate of violent crime in this state is up 30 percent from last year.}

The fault lies entirely in our court system: Recently our judges' sentences have been so lenient that criminals can now do almost anything without fear of a long prison term. The argument above would be weakened if it were true that

A. _{85 percent of the other states}

in the nation have lower crime rates than does this state

B. _{white collar crime in this state}

has also increased by over 25 percent in the last year

C. _{35 percent of the police in this}

state have been laid off in the last year due to budget cuts.

D. _{. polls show that 65 percent of}

the population in this state oppose capital punishment.

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