Admission Tests GMAT Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

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• Question 341:

  For a sales promotion, a dog food producer produces packages with 40 percent more dog food than the regular-size package and sells the larger package for the same price as the usual price of the regular-size package. Compared to the regular-size package at its usual price, approximately what percent less is the price per ounce of the larger package of dog food?

  A. 25%
  B. 29%
  C. 37.5%
  D. 40%
  E. 60%
  B. 29%

• Question 342:

  It can be inferred from the passage that if the leaves of a plant were damaged by wind rather than by caterpillars, the parasitic wasps would

  A. not be significantly more attracted to the damaged plant than to other, undamaged plants
  B. not be attracted to the plant until several hours after the damage occurred
  C. be attracted to the plant if it gave off a grassy odor
  D. be attracted to the plant if other plants in its immediate vicinity had also been damaged by the wind
  E. be attracted to the plant even if the damage to the leaves was very minor
  A. not be significantly more attracted to the damaged plant than to other, undamaged plants

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Parasitic wasps propagate by injecting their eggs into a caterpillar that then becomes paralyzed as the eggs inside develop into wasp larvae. The wasp larvae kill the caterpillar host as they feed on it, form cocoons, and finally develop into wasps. In attempting to discover how such wasps detect the presence of the caterpillar hosts that are so critical to the wasps' propagation, researchers have uncovered an intriguing defense mechanism developed by the plants on which the caterpillars feed. When chewed on, many plants release volatile compounds from both damaged and undamaged tissues. When these compounds are toxic to the insects that feed on the plants, they can help defend the plants from such attacks. However, the plants on which the wasps' caterpillar hosts feed have evolved an even more complex defense: the caterpillar-infested plants appear to release volatile chemicals that attract parasitic wasps, which then prey on the caterpillars. Scientists originally suspected that the wasps were attracted by an odor, reminiscent of cut grass, that is released as the caterpillar feeds, but a recent study suggests that a different set of volatile attractants is involved. In this study, when researchers used a razor blade to mimic caterpillar damage on the leaves, only grassy odors were emitted, not the volatile compounds that attracted wasps. However, when oral secretions from the caterpillars were applied to these damaged leaves, the leaves released the wasp attractants several hours later. Further tests revealed that oral secretions placed on the razor-damaged leaves stimulated the release of such attractants, making the plants as attractive to wasps as plants that had suffered actual caterpillar damage. These results suggest that chemicals from the caterpillar must be present for these attractants to be released and that unlike the grassy scent, which emanates only as the caterpillar on the plant, the wasp attractants are produced several hours after the attack and persist for several hours, perhaps days. Researchers have launched additional studies to determine whether the wasps' capacity to prey on caterpillars can be enhanced to the extent that the wasps could be used as a natural pesticide to "police" plants and protect them from crop- destroying caterpillars.

• Question 343:

  Which of the following most logically completes the argument?

  Many advocate cost-benefit assessment of environmental policies. Although some costs and benefits are already in monetary terms, others, such as effects on the quality of people's lives, are not. It has been proposed that these costs and benefits be assigned monetary values based on what people say they would pay to avoid or gain them.

  However, while this appears to treat everyone's interests alike, it is biased against the interests of certain groups because

  A. cost-benefit analysis as a method of assessing policies was not originally designed to be used to assess environmental policies
  B. a small monetary amount has a greater significance for people who have fewer financial resources
  C. very few environmental policies provide substantial benefits without significant costs
  D. any environmental policy will have costs and benefits that cannot possibly be known in advance
  E. no one can expect to live forever or to maintain perfect health, no matter what environmental policies are in effect
  B. a small monetary amount has a greater significance for people who have fewer financial resources

• Question 344:

  The cube of one positive real number equals the square of a second positive real number. What is the product of the 2 numbers?

  (1)

  The second number is twice the first number.

  (2)

  The cube of the second number is 32 times the square of the first number.

  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.
  A. statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

• Question 345:

  Upon entering the mayor's outer office, one is immediately greeted by a mural of local historical images, for which several are repeated in other paintings, the sofa pillows, a patchwork quilt, and crafted items enclosed in a locked glass case.

  A. for which several are repeated In other paintings.
  B. several which are repeated in other paintings as well as
  C. several repeated in other paintings and
  D. many of which repeat in other paintings and
  E. of which several are repeated In oilier paintings and on
  B. several which are repeated in other paintings as well as

• Question 346:

  Job candidates are prescreened through using administrative plus management skills assessments.

  A. through using administrative plus management skills assessments
  B. by assessments of administration and of management skills
  C. with assessments of administrative and management skills
  D. assessing administrative and managerial skills
  E. assessing their skills in administration and management
  E. assessing their skills in administration and management

• Question 347:

  Which of the following is the best example of the profound changes in corporate strategy and structure discussed In the second paragraph?

  A. Increased authority of a department manager over the staff of another department
  B. Appointment of a manager to oversee all contact among departments within a company
  C. Initiation of collaborative joint projects by staff from different departments
  D. Assignment of managerial tasks to nonmanagerial departmental staff
  E. increased emphasis on competition among departments
  C. Initiation of collaborative joint projects by staff from different departments

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Managerial work is undergoing enormous and rapid change. With little precedent to guide them, managers are coping with the fading away of hierarchy and the blurring of clear distinctions of title, task, department, even corporation. Traditional sources of power are being eroded as levels of complexity and interdependence increase. Competitive pressures from recent business downturns are forcing corporations to adopt flexible strategies and structures, including reductions In management staff and increased use of performance-based (rather than longevity-based) rewards. In a more profound change, in a growing number of companies horizontal ties between peers are replacing vertical ties as channels of activity and communication. Companies are asking departmental staff to play a more strategic role, with greater cross-departmental collaboration. Some organizations are forming strategic alliances with customers and outside suppliers that bring external relationships inside, where they can influence company policy. Fundamentally, the new managerial work involves new ways of obtaining and using power. Position, title, and authority are no longer adequate tools when managers have to work cooperatively with other departments and even other companies. The ability of managers to get things done depends more on the number of networks in which they are included than on their rank in a hierarchy. In the past, formal structures and the emphasis on rank were more limiting. For example, access to information and the ability to get informal backing were often confined to the few officially sanctioned contact points between departments or between the company and Its suppliers or customers. Today, official barriers between departments and between companies are disappearing while Informal networks grow in importance. The new corporation has many more channels for action, strategic pathways that ignore the chain of command. These strategic pathways also serve to diffuse power. As the number of ways to combine resources Increases, the ability to command diminishes. Alternative paths of communication and resource access erode the authority of those in the nominal chain of command. In other words, greater speed and flexibility undermine hierarchy. As more and more of the strategic action takes place in these informal networks, the Jobs that focus inward on particular departments decline In power.

• Question 348:

  

  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.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.

• Question 349:

  By the end of next year, analysts have predicted, the widespread use by online businesses of the new security protocols proposed for credit cards.

  A. predicted, the widespread use by online businesses
  B. predicted, there will be widespread use by online businesses
  C. predicted that online businesses' use will be widespread
  D. predicted as online businesses' widespread use
  E. predicted that use, by online businesses, will be widespread
  B. predicted, there will be widespread use by online businesses

• Question 350:

  HOTSPOT

  

  The graph shows the total annual revenue. In US dollars (US$), from sales of each of 2 competing health- care products for 10 consecutive years. Product 1 was first sold In Year 1, and Product 2 was first sold ki Year 2. From each drop-down menu, select the option that creates the most accurate statement based on the information provided.

  Hot Area:

  

  

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  Explanation/Reference: