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What is the greatest possible percent of people surveyed who use all of the methods listed?
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If 30 percent of the people surveyed use both of the methods "exercise near home or work" and "exercise outdoors", what percent of people surveyed use at least one of the two methods?
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The number of people surveyed who use the method "join a health club" is what percent greater than the number who use the method"exercise with friends or family"?
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In the xy-plane, line $$k$$ passes through points $$(-2, 6)$$ and $$(4, 3)$$. What is the $$y$$-intercept of line $$k$$?
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Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?
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A group of computer users received an e-mail offering information about a computer service. Only 16 percent of the users responded to the offer for information. Eventually 46 of the users purchased the service, which represented 5 percent of those who responded to the offer for information. How many computer users received the e-mail offering information about the service?
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One of the reasons why so many rodent species live in rocky habitat is because it is______: it contains plenty of crevices and cavities in which animals can nest, seek shelter, and find shade.
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When the columnist wrote about controversial issues, her own position was not always (i) _____________her analysis of the arguments being put forth on either side. If she (ii) _____________ the reasoning of proponents of one side, that did not mean that she rejected their position.
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Poets in the United States usually speak with more (i) _____________ for authentic experience than for the imagination. They cultivate strategies to make themselves sound (ii) _____________, as if poems were eyewitness accounts and not (iii) _____________.
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Maintaining a tolerant attitude toward pseudoscience might be considered _____________, but it could be argued that such a disposition lowers our defenses against more dangerous delusions that are based on similar confusions and fallacies.
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Humans can have (i) _____________tastes: crab brains and squeezable cheese are delicacies to many people, even as others find them repulsive. The preference for sweet and abhorrence of bitter is (ii) _____________, however.
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At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making _____________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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In medieval China, the Confucian emphasis on rites as an outward manifestation of virtue explains Chinese bureaucrats'_____________ the accurate performance of tributary rituals by foreigners at the imperial court.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area-and imminent rationing and steep water price increases-is_____________ the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer communities nearby conserve by necessity.
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Much as our taste for sugar and fat served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but has become _____________ in a world of plenty, where we satisfy it to the point of obesity, our memories can work against us in our contemporary information age.
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Most of the bank-efficiency literature suggests that bank mergers culminating in larger, more complex organizations (i)_____________ significant economies of scale or scope that are (ii) _____________ to consumers. Indeed, some of this literature suggests diseconomies, which would lead to higher loan rates or lower deposit rates for consumers.
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