GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 271:

  A rectangular floor will be completely covered with square tiles, each of which has sides of length 6 inches. If tiles are laid side by side with no space between them and no tiles are cut. then the number of tiles needed to cover the floor is

  1.080. Which of the following could be the dimensions of the floor? (Note: 12 inches- 1 foot.)

  A. 15 feel by 9 feet
  B. 15 feet by 18 feet
  C. 30 feet by 18 feet
  D. 30 feet by 36 feet
  E. 45 feet by 36 feet
  B. 15 feet by 18 feet

• Question 272:

  The graph summarizes the responses from 4. 500 respondents who rated their degree of confidence in each of eight United States institutions. Each respondent gave each institution one of five confidence ratings: high, moderate, little, none, or undecided.

  

  If 20 percent of the respondents rated both their degree of confidence in the federal government and their degree of confidence in the news media high or moderate, what percent of the respondents gave neither of these institutions a confidence rating of high or moderate?

  A. 35%
  B. 40%
  C. 45%
  D. 50%
  E. 55%
  B. 40%

• Question 273:

  If x < y, which of the following must be true?

  

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

• Question 274:

  Company A had 47 employees a! the beginning of 2001 and 78 employees at the beginning of 2008. Company B had 53 employees at the beginning of 2004 and 90 employees at the

  

  beginning of 2013.

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equal.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  B. Quantity B is greater.

• Question 275:

  

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equal.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

• Question 276:

  Laws protecting intellectual properly are intended to stimulate creativity, yet some tonus of creative work have never enjoyed legal protection--a situation that ought to be of great interest. If we see certain forms of creative endeavor (1) _________as a result of uncontrolled copying, we might decide tot (ii )_________intellectual property law. Conversely, if unprotected creative work (iii)_________in the absence of legal rules against copying, we would do well to know how such flourishing is sustained.

  A. languishing
  B. proliferating
  C. diversifying
  D. jettison
  E. declines in originality
  F. extend
  G. relax
  H. manages to thrive
  I. openly invites imitation
  A. languishing
  E. declines in originality
  H. manages to thrive

• Question 277:

  A law has been proposed requiring the cargo boxes of trucks carrying gravel to be covered by a tarpaulin, because vehicles driving close behind open-topped gravel trucks can be damaged by gravel (lying off these trucks. The law is unlikely to substantially reduce such damage, however: flying gravel is much less likely to come from the cargo box itself than from the grooves of the tires, in which gravel can become wedged during loading.

  Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the argument given?

  A. The drivers of vehicles behind a gravel truck are more likely to remain close behind the truck if the truck's cargo box is covered than if it is uncovered.
  B. Most trucks that carry gravel already carry tarpaulins that their drivers use to cover the cargo box when they are carrying sand, which can blow out of the cargo box in significant quantities.
  C. Of all the damage that occurs to vehicles on the highway, debris that flies oft* tracks is the cause of only a very small fraction.
  D. The proposed law allows open-topped trucks on the highway to haw uncovered cargo boxes whenever their cargo boxes are empty.
  E. Because of the great weight of a load of gravel, the driver of a gravel truck is often driving much more slowly than most of the other vehicles on the road.
  A. The drivers of vehicles behind a gravel truck are more likely to remain close behind the truck if the truck's cargo box is covered than if it is uncovered.

• Question 278:

  One difficulty in convincing early scientists that craters fanned as a result of impacts from space is that most craters are circular. Impacts could come in at any angle, and experiments firing projectiles in the laboratory show that low-angle impacts lead to elliptical craters, not circular ones. Furthermore, while there was rarely evidence of any impacting object, there was often silicate melt around, suggesting that craters were caused by volcanic processes. The breakthrough in understanding crater origin was the recognition that the shock caused by the impacting object--not the object itself--creates a circular crater some twenty Times larger than the diameter of the impactor. The impact also generates enough heat to largely vaporize the impactor and melt the native rock.

  What can be inferred from the passage about the silicate melt found around craters?

  A. It was not caused exclusively by volcanic processes.
  B. It led early scientists to consider volcanic activity as a cause of crater formation.
  C. It can probably be explained by the intense heat caused by impact
  A. It was not caused exclusively by volcanic processes.
  B. It led early scientists to consider volcanic activity as a cause of crater formation.
  C. It can probably be explained by the intense heat caused by impact

• Question 279:

  The average (arithmetic mean) of a set of n test scores is 70. If a new score of 90 is added to the set. the average of the set of scores will be 72. What is the value of w?

  A. 9
  B. PlaceHoder
  A. 9

• Question 280:

  The importance of the Bill of Rights in twentieth-century United States law and politics has led some historians to search for the "original meaning" of its most controversial clauses. This approach. known as "originalism." presumes that each right codified in the Bill of Rights had au independent history that can be studied in isolation from the histories of other rights, and its proponents ask how formulations of the Bill of Rights in 1791 reflected developments in specific areas of legal thinking at that time. Legal and constitutional historians, for example, have found originalism especially useful in the study of provisions of the Bill of Rights that were innovative by eighteenth-century standards, such as the Fourth Amendment's broadly termed protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Recent calls in the legal and political arena for a return to a "jurisprudence of original intention." however, have made it a matter of much more than purely scholarly interest when originalists insist that a clause's true meaning was fixed at the moment of its adoption, or maintain that only those rights explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution deserve constitutional recognition and protection. These two claims seemingly lend support to the notion that an interpreter must apply fixed definitions of a fixed number of rights to contemporary issues, for the claims imply that the central problem of rights in the Revolutionary era was to precisely identity, enumerate, and define those rights that Americans felt were crucial to protecting their liberty.

  Both claims, however, are questionable from the perspective of a strictly historical inquiry, however sensible they may seem from the vantage point of contemporary jurisprudence. Even though originalists are correct in claiming that the search for original meaning is inherently historical, historians would not normally seek.

  It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the Bill of Rights?

  A. The Bill of Rights' importance in twentieth-century United States law 3iid politics has been overemphasized by some scholars.
  B. The diversity of views among the Bill of Rights" framers and ratifiers makes the search for any right's original meaning inherently problematic.
  C. The omission of certain rights by the framers and ratifiers should limit the number of constitutionally recognized and protected rights today.
  D. Establishing the original meaning of each clause will enable controversial issues to be settled according to the intentions of its framers.
  E. Originalists have exaggerated the contributions of certain framers and ratifiers of the Bill of Rights while downplaying the contributions of others.
  B. The diversity of views among the Bill of Rights" framers and ratifiers makes the search for any right's original meaning inherently problematic.