According to the passage, which of the following is true of comparable worth as a policy?
Which of the following most accurately states the central purpose of the passage?
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According to the passage, comparable worth principles are different in which of the following ways from other mandates intended to reduce or eliminate pay inequities:
Which of the following best describes an application of the principles of comparable worth as they are described in the passage?
It can be inferred from the passage that application of "other mandates" (see highlighted text) would be unlikely to result in an outcome satisfactory to the female employees in which of the following situations?
I. Males employed as long-distance truck drivers for a furniture company make $3.50 more per hour than do females with comparable job experience employed in the same capacity.
II. Women working in the office of a cement company contend that their jobs are as demanding and valuable as those of the men working in the cement factory, but the women are paid much less per hour.
III. A law firm employs both male and female paralegals with the same educational and career backgrounds, but the starting salary for male paralegals is $5,000 more than for female paralegals.
According to the passage, a mark-to-market (or fair value) accounting regime requires that the marketable assets held by a company be accounted for at market value, and mark-to-market improves the information available to market participants. Which of the following best describes the relationship between the two highlighted statements?
Each option contains a pair of answers separated by a semicolon. Which pair of answers best completes the following sentence?
In the second paragraph, the author focuses on loss transmission involving ________, while in the third paragraph the writer focuses on loss transmission involving _______.
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the fourth paragraph?
The passage mentions all of the following as possible advantages of mark-to-market accounting EXCEPT:
A certain credit-card company awards its customers bonus points for using its credit card. Customers can use accumulated points in the purchase of brand name merchandise by mail at prices lower than the manufacturers‘ suggested retail prices. At any given time, therefore, customers who purchase merchandise using the bonus points spend less than they would spend if they purchased the same merchandise in retail stores.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
Consumer Advocate: The new soft drink, Mango Paradise, contains at least 2.5% of Ephedra, a chemical supplement that stimulates the activity of the nervous system but may also result in serious cardiac problems. Therefore, this drink is harmful to consumer health and should be banned from distribution in our state.
Which of the following is an assumption made by the consumer advocate?
Editorial: The most vocal proponents of the proposed law are not permanent residents of this island but rather a few of the wealthiest summer residents, who leave when the vacation months have passed. These people will benefit from passage of this law while not having to deal with the problems associated with its adoption. Therefore, anyone who supports the proposed law is serving only the interests of a few outsiders at the cost of creating problems for the island’s permanent residents.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
Educator: Only those students who are genuinely curious about a topic can successfully learn about that topic. They find the satisfaction of their curiosity intrinsically gratifying, and appreciate the inherent rewards of the learning process itself. However, almost no child enters the classroom with sufficient curiosity to learn successfully all that the teacher must instill. A teacher’s job, therefore, _______.
Which one of the following most logically completes the educator’s argument?
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
An Entertainment industry spokesperson's statement that the industry loses millions of dollars every year due to illegal downloads of mobile applications. Yet, this claim is not representative of the truth. Most people who illegally download mobile applications without paying for them are those that have no serious interest in that application. Thus, the loss to the industry is quite small, because......
Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?
Nessus Valley Machinery is trying to decide between manufacturing screws out of steel or screws out of aluminum. Both types of screw typically cost about the same to produce and they sell at comparable prices. Because one of Nessus Valley's primary customers, an automotive company, is discontinuing the truck they produce that uses steel screws, the market for steel screws, though not for aluminum screws, will be significantly smaller than usual. Therefore, producing screws from aluminum will be more profitable than producing screws from steel, because __________ .
Manager: the new manufacturing process should save us time overall, even though the first step of the five-step process will take twice as long as it does under the old process. Under the new process, far fewer of the components will be found defective, and the sole purpose of steps two and three under the old process is to weed out defective components. As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the claim made in the argument?
Flagpole Army Base in Oregon and Klondike Army Base in Alaska are similar bases with similar duty loads. Despite the similarities, Klondike always has had more men than Flagpole has. Clearly, each soldier at Klondike must have to perform a smaller share of the duties, and therefore soldiers at Klondike must have more free time than do soldiers at Flagpole.
In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to know which of the following?
Over the past twenty years in the U.S., the average number of hours per week that people spend at work has increased from approximately 41 hours to nearly 52 hours. It is thought that this change has played an important role in the corresponding increase in average body mass index for working Americans over the same period. The increased time at work does not allow people as much time to exercise and engage in healthy activities that help reduce weight.
Which of the following questions would be most useful to answer in determining whether the increased workweek is an important cause of the increase in average body mass index over the past twenty years?
According to the passage, the League of United Latin American Citizens differed from the Congress of Spanish-Speaking People in that the League of United Latin American Citizens
It can be inferred from the passage that García would most probably agree with which one of the following statements about the Mexican American political activists of the 1930s and 1940s?
The passage suggests that García assumes which one of the following to have been true of Mexican Americans between 1930 and 1960?
It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes which one of the following about the Mexican American political activists of the 1930s and 1940s?
What is the role of the sentences in boldface?
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