1.

The percentage of households with an annual income of more than $40,000 is higher in Merton
County than in any other county. However, the percentage of households with an annual
income of $60,000 or more is higher in Sommer County. If the statements above are true,
which of the following must also be true?
Answer is (D) – wrong C
2. Cheever College offers several online courses via remote computer connection, in addition to
traditional classroom-based courses. A study of student performance at Cheever found that,
overall, the average student grade for online courses matched that for classroom-based courses.
In this calculation of the average grade, course withdrawals were weighted as equivalent to a
course failure, and the rate of withdrawal was much lower for students enrolled in classroom-
based courses than for students enrolled in online courses. If the statements above are true,
which of the following must also be true of Cheever College?
Answer is (A) - true
3. When a polygraph test is judged inconclusive, this is no reflection on the examinee. Rather, such
a judgment means that the test has failed to show whether the examinee was truthful or
untruthful. Nevertheless, employers will sometimes refuse to hire a job applicant because of an
inconclusive polygraph test result. Which of the following conclusions can most properly be
drawn from the information above?
Answer is (E) – wrong C
4. A company’s two divisions performed with remarkable consistency over the past three years: in
each of those years, the pharmaceuticals division has accounted for roughly 20 percent of dollar
sales and 40 percent of profits, and the chemicals division for the balance. Which of the
following can properly be inferred regarding the past three years from the statement above?
Answer is (B) – wrong C
5. Advertisement: Today’s customers expect high quality. Every advance in the quality of
manufactured products raises customer expectations. The company that is satisfied with the
current quality of its products will soon find that its customers are not. At MegaCorp, meeting or
exceeding customer expectations is our goal. Which of the following must be true on the basis
of the statements in the advertisement above?
Answer is (B) – wrong C
6. The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers there are
who advertise their services, and the lawyers who advertise a specific service usually charge less
for that service than the lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its
current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify fee
arrangements, overall consumer legal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current
restrictions. If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
Answer is (C) - true
7. Neither a rising standard of living nor balanced trade, by itself, establishes a country’s ability to
compete in the international marketplace. Both are required simultaneously since standards of
living can rise because of growing trade deficits and trade can be balanced by means of a decline
in a country’s standard of living. If the facts stated in the passage above are true, a proper test
of a country’s ability to be competitive is its ability to
Answer is (E) – wrong A
8. To protect certain fledgling industries, the government of Country Z banned imports of the types
of products those industries were starting to make. As a direct result, the cost of those products
to the buyers, several export-dependent industries in Z, went up, sharply limiting the ability of
those industries to compete effectively in their export markets. Which of the following
conclusions about Country Z’s adversely affected export-dependent industries is best
supported by the passage?
Answer is (C) – wrong A
 9. Although aspirin has been proven to eliminate moderate fever associated with some illnesses,
many doctors no longer routinely recommend its use for this purpose. A moderate fever
stimulates the activity of the body’s disease-fighting white blood cells and also inhibits the
growth of many strains of disease-causing bacteria. If the statements above are true, which of
the following conclusions is most strongly supported by them?
Answer is (D) – wrong B
10. Environmentalist: The commissioner of the Fish and Game Authority would have the public
believe that increases in the number of marine fish caught demonstrate that this resource is no
longer endangered. This is a specious argument, as unsound as it would be to assert that the
ever-increasing rate at which rain forests are being cut down demonstrates a lack of danger to
that resource. The real cause of the increased fish-catch is a greater efficiency in using
technologies that deplete resources. The environmentalist’s statements, if true, best support
which of the following as a conclusion?
Answer is (E) - true
11. For a trade embargo against a particular country to succeed, a high degree of both international
accord and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving that country must be sustained. A
total blockade of Patria’s ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an action would be likely to
cause international discord over the embargo. The claims above, if true, most strongly support
which of the following conclusions?
Answer is (D) - true
12. The cost of producing radios in Country Q is 10 percent less than the cost of producing radios in
Country Y. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are added, it is still cheaper for a
company to import radios from Country Q to Country Y than to produce radios in Country Y. The
statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?
Answer is (C) – true

1. C
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. E
11. D
12. C
21. D B
22. B c
23. A
24. D B
25. D
26. C
27. B E
28. B
29. D
30. D
31. D
32. E
33. D B
34. A
35. E
36. E A
37. C D
38. D
39. D
40. B
41. E
42. A C
43. E A
44. E D
45. D B
46. C
47. E D
48. C
49. D
50. D
51. E B
 Strengthen
59. C-E
60. D-C
61. E
62. B-E
63. A
64. C-B
65. C
66. A
67. C
68. E-D
69. D-B
70. D-B
71. C-B
72. A-E
73. B-E
74. B-D
75. D-B
76. C-E
77. C-A
78. C-B
79. B-E
80. D
81. D-E
 ASSUMPTIONS

96. B-E

97. D

98. D-C

99. D

100. C

101. C

102. E

103. D-B

104. D

105. D-B

106. E

107. D

108. B-D

109. D-A

110. E-C

Paradox

111. C

112. A

113. C-B

114. C

115. D-C

116. A

117. A-E

118. D

119. B-A

120. D-C
 Evaluate

82. E

83. B

84. B

85. C

86. A

87. D

88. B

89. E

90.

91.

92.

93.

94.

95.
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133. E

134. A

135. A-C

136. C-D

137. B

138. C-D

139. E-A

140. C-E

141. E-D

Flaw

52. A

53. D

54. E

55. D

56. C-A

57. E

58. E-D