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• Question 111:

  The faces of a cube are labeled from 1 to 6, and when the cube is tossed, each number is equally likely to appear on the top face. If two of these cubes are tossed, what is the probability that the number that appears on the top face of either of the cubes exceeds the number on the other by exactly 2 ?

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  E. Option E
  D. Option D

• Question 112:

  Which of the following does information in the passage most strongly suggest is true?

  A. People going to watch a film that is expected to evoke negative emotion are more likely to sit at the front of the theater than at the back.
  B. Left-handed people are more likely than others to prefer sitting on the left side of a movie theater to sitting on the right side.
  C. Some people gaing to watch a movie, whether comedy, drama, or other genre, prefer sitting on the left side of the theater to sitting on the right side.
  D. Students who sit on the left side of a classroom and direct their frontal gaze somewhat to the right receive more visual information from the left side than the right side of their visual field.
  E. Ambidextrous people are as likely to prefer sitting on the left side of a movie theater as on the right side.
  C. Some people gaing to watch a movie, whether comedy, drama, or other genre, prefer sitting on the left side of the theater to sitting on the right side.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Despite overall physiological bilateral symmetry, many species exhibit lateralized biases, i.e., preferences for right- or left-oriented behavior. When approaching prey, for example, some predator species favor their right eye; some prey species respond more quickly when their left eye detects a predator. Similar behavioral asymmetries occur in humans. Most notable is right- and lefthandedness; less notable is the tendency to turn right when entering a room. Paul Farnsworth found that more successful students tended to choose seats near the front, a little to the right. He argued that external factors such as teacher location might have affected this lateral bias. But it is now known that processing differences between the two brain hemispheres can also contribute to behavioral asymmetries, George Karev found that when presented with a movie theater seating diagram, right-handed people were more likely than left-handed people to choose a seat on the right, facing front. But he hypothesized that, since the right hemisphere processes visuospatial and emotional information, the people who chose right- side seats did so because that would put the screen in their left visual field, optimizing information flow to the right hemisphere. Although the right hemisphere is thought to be dominant in processing emotion, some evidence suggests that the left hemisphere plays a role. The valence model proposes that the left and right hemispheres process positive and negative emotion respectively, while the approach-withdrawal model posits that the left hemisphere processes emotion expressed in approach behavior and the right hemisphere processes emotion expressed in withdrawal behavior. Victoria Harms and colleagues suggested that since a paper seating plan was used in the theater-seating studies by Karev and others, the exhibited preference might be due simply to handedness: people choose the same side of the paper as their favored hand. Consequently, the Harms research was designed to study choices in an actual movie theater. Also, hoping to distinguish between various explanations, they studied seating choices for comedies (presumed to contain Positive emotional content), dramas (presumed to contain negative emotional content), and documentaries (presumed to have balanced emotional content). They found significant--though not universal-- preference for seats on the right, facing front, regardless of movie genre and of handedness.

• Question 113:

  

  (1)x2 + 2y2 =XY

  (2)x2 + 2y2-3xy

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone Is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER ace sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER ace sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.

• Question 114:

  HOTSPOT

  A company processes boxes that have a number of different dimensions. Based on the dimensions of the boxes, the company classifies all of them In three categories. A, B. and C. The table Ms some examples of boxes, their Dimensions, and their classification categories.

  

  Hot Area:

  

  

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• Question 115:

  Even those residents who had not been born in the region, nor were their ancestors, had become fully integrated into the local community.

  A. region, nor were their ancestors, had
  B. region--neither had their ancestors--had
  C. region--and whose ancestors had not been either--had
  D. region, whose ancestors were not either, had
  E. region, which their ancestors had not, had
  B. region--neither had their ancestors--had

• Question 116:

  HOTSPOT

  For each of the four types of rooms in a certain hotel in June of last year, the table shows the number of rooms of that type in the hotel and the total number of nights booked, such that each night on which any given room is booked counts as one night booked. For example, because there were 10 rooms of the Garden Family type and there were 30 nights in June, the greatest possible number of nights booked for rooms of the Garden Family type was 10 multiplied by 30, or 300 (of which a total of 164 nights were actually booked). A room was considered vacant on any night on which it was not booked.

  

  For each of the following room types in June of last year, select Yes if the average (arithmetic mean) number of vacancies (instances of a particular room being vacant on a particular night) per night for rooms of that type was greater than 2. Otherwise, select No.

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• Question 117:

  Until the Apollo astronauts brought samples of lunar material to Earth during 196?72, scientists believed that the Moon's surface was largely undisturbed, given its dry, airless environment. Examination of the samples has shown otherwise. Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the Moon at up to 100,000 kilometers per hour, chipping materials or forming microscopic craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and recondense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into lumps of heterogeneous matter called "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with solar particle streams convert iron into myriads of microscopic iron grains. The regdith--pebbles, sand, and dust-from these erosion processes blankets the Moon. Much of the top layer consists of a complex abrasive dust of microscopic glass shards that can grind machinery and sealing devices and damage human lungs.

  The Apollo specimens held by the United States are doled out in ultra-small samples to scientists who demonstrate that nothing else will suffice for high-value experiments. Renewed interest In lunar exploration in the late 1980s meant that materials designed to simulate lunar regolith--simulants--were needed for research to develop schemes for lunar building and procedures for extracting elements such as oxygen found abundantly in regolith. That led to the development of JSC-1 in 1993, made of volcanic cinder cone from a quarry in Arizona in the U.S. The more than 22 metric tons made was in high demand. Efforts are now afoot to manufacture 16 metric tons of JSC-1 A, with 1 ton of fine grains, 14 tons of moderately fine, and 1 ton of coarse.

  The reason cited in the passage for developing a few root simulants (see highlighting) is

  A. the similarity of the physical structure of lunar regolith from different areas of the Moon
  B. the nature of the tests for which the lunar regolith simulants were originally developed
  C. the impracticality and expense of individually producing a unique simulant for each of many different lunar locations
  D. the similarity of chemical composition of lunar regolith and terrestrial volcanic soils
  E. the difficulty of obtaining simulant components from widely scattered quarries and mines
  C. the impracticality and expense of individually producing a unique simulant for each of many different lunar locations

• Question 118:

  What amount. In dollars, Invested for one year at an interest rate of 2 percent compounded semiannually would produce the same final balance at the end of the year as $10,000 Invested for one year at an interest rate of 4 percent compounded quarterly?

  A. $10,000
  B. $10,201
  C. $10,500
  D. $10,801
  E. $20,000
  B. $10,201

• Question 119:

  Editorial: For the past two years, our dty has used photo radar to enforce speed limits at several Intersections, automatically photographing cars, measuring their speeds, and mailing tickets to offending drivers. In the second year of the program, the annual number of violations observed by photo radar dropped by 5 percent. This shows that the program has been effective at reducing speeding on the monitored streets.

  The editorial's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?

  A. It overlooks the possibility that speeding may have increased on many streets not monitored by photo radar.
  B. It takes for granted that any other method of enforcing speed limits would be less effective than photo radar.
  C. It fails to adequately address the possibility that the annual number of speeding violations in the city may fluctuate at random from year to year.
  D. It conflates the claim that photo radar may Increase the incidence of speeding with the claim that a reduction in speeding has resulted in fewer observed violations.
  E. It confuses a justified conclusion about the program's effectiveness with an unsubstantiated explanation of why the program has been effective.
  C. It fails to adequately address the possibility that the annual number of speeding violations in the city may fluctuate at random from year to year.

• Question 120:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.