Which of these is the best explanation of how a smooth round stone became smooth?
It was in a stream for a long
When a lobster grows a claw to
... [Show More] replace one that was lost, the process is called
regeneration.
Any astronomical body that revolves around a larger body is called
a satellite.
In chemistry, to be classified as an organic substance, a substance must contain
Carbon atoms.
Which element does NOT contain any neutrons?
hydrogen
The chemical formula of a compound describes the elements the compound contains and the
ratio of elements in the compound.
What is the symbol for the hydroxyl ion?
Н30
Which of the following is a renewable resource?
natural gas
How many atoms are in a single molecule of water (H20)?
3
Regeneration in man is limited to
healing of wounds.
When scientists measure a liquid's resistance to flow, they are measuring the liquid's
viscosity.
When sodium atoms form sodium ions, they
lose electrons.
A perpetual-motion machine can never be built because it is not possible to eliminate
inertia,
A human skin cell divides by
mitosis.
The filament in an electric light bulb is made from
tungsten.
Terry earns a $250 salary plus $5 per sale. How many sales must Terry make to earn $765 altogether?
103
Jerry walked a dog from 6:40 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. one day. If he was paid at the rate of $6 per hour, how much did he earn that day?
$5.00
How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64 square feet?
32
A woman is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office?
968 sq ft
A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 miles per hour downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land?
1/2 hour
ART 2 - Arithmetic Reasoning Each August, a restaurant's rent is adjusted to the cost-of-living index. The rent has been $1,550 a month, and the cost-of-living index for this August was 3.7%. What is the new rent per month?
$1,607.35
There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability of that child getting a green marble?
.66
The pet store had 6 puppies selling for $104 each and 12 kittens selling for $24 each. Today, only 2 puppies and 8 kittens were left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies to kittens?
13 to 3
Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box?
16 units
If the ratio of the sides of two squares is 3:1, what is the ratio of their perimeters?
4:1
If the perimeter of a square garden feet, what is the area of the garden?
441 sq ft
The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket?
$3.60
A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. second press can print 15,000 copies in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press?
50
If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old?
125%
Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If lan received $125.000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive?
7/8
Emphasize most neary means
Accentuate
We will long remember our PERILOUS journey
Hazardous
INEPT most nearly means
Bungling
ADAGE most nearly means
Proverb
ADMONITION most nearly means
Warning
DECRY most nearly means
Disparage
MORATORIUM most nearly means
Suspension
CAJOLE most nearly means
Wheedle
Most companies have a policy against NEPOTISM
Hiring Relatives
CONTENTIOUS most nearly means
Quarrelsome
UNPRETENTIOUS most nearly means
Simple
BROACH most nearly means
Mention
COMMUNIQUE most nearly means
Message
VIRULENT most nearly means
Abrasive
LAMBASTE most nearly means
Chastise
What are the two main gases that make up stars?
Hydrogen and helium
Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How much is the smaller income?
$13,000
Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a 5% sales tax, what was the actual price of the shirt?
$20.95
PRESTIGE most nearly means
Status
CONSTRUE most nearly means
Interpret
Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House. His press conferences served writers, and through them the nation, about the complex, novel measures he was advocating. It can be inferred from the passage that Roosevelt
was a president who recognized the power of the press.
Riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit America's largest national park Wrangell-St. Elias --13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. Now a mecca for tourists, the town of Kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. According to the passage, which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events?
copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction
Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking the right questions. The trick is simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking.
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