To evaluate the judgment in the highlighted text, it would be helpful to determine whether
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The table above shows the values of one share of stock for companies $$A B$$, and c at the close of the stock market yesterday, where $$x$$ is in dollars and $$x > 2$$.
Which of the following statements individually provide(s) sufficient additional information to determine the value of $$x$$?
Indicate all such statements.
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For families headed by people with graduate degrees, which of the following time periods had the greatest range in median income?
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Which of the following is closest to the fraction of female students in their freshman year who were in an age-group of 25 and older?
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Which of the following is closest to the percent of the students enrolled in college who were female students in their junior year and in the age-group 20 to 24?
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In 1987 there were $$630,000$$ students enrolled in college in Country $$U$$ who were in the age-group $$35$$ and older. Which of the following is closest to the percent increase from 1987 to 2007 in the number of students enrolled in college in Country $$U$$ who were in the
age-group $$35$$ and older?
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The late nineteenth century saw a shift in the production of African American history writing as works by _____________ authors came to be outnumbered by the publications of professional African American academics.
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The snow-covered surface of the lake presents a reassuring illusion of _____________, but beneath the snow the ice is riven with treacherous cracks.
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The songwriter' s (i) _____________ nature can lead her audiences to forget that her songs are about painful experiences just as often as they are about (ii) ______________ ones.
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We have been so persuaded that (i) _____________ and disgraceful conduct go together that we find it difficult to believe that an affable man such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can be (ii) _____________ of both goodness and superior ability. Indeed, appalling conduct is sometimes itself (iii) _____________ the greatest talent.
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Judge Jones brought some welcome levity to the often tense, though sometimes_____________, proceedings.
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The concept of replicability begins with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth is not _____________: researchers who make daims must allow others to test those claims.
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Robert McCance and Elsie Widdowson's The Chemica! Composition of Foods, published in 1940, contained an extraordinary fifteen thousand entries, making it the first collection of nutritional information for cooked and raw foods that could be considered_____________.
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To help protect the environment, the United States government currently requires safe storage of coal ash for 30 years, "if feasible," but many countries that burn coal lack even such _____________ environmental safequards.
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The watchword in astronomy is _____________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one' s mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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Increasing (i)_____________ to use land for purposes other than food production (ii) _____________expanding agriculture into currently uncultivated lands. Therefore, in order to meet growing global demand for food, more efficient means of crop production must be found.
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A key characteristic in the author's presentation of his character's dreary life is _____________: paragraphs are short, sentences are laconic, patterns of repetition and
circularity are evoked by means of symbolic shorthand.
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Drug companies rarely pursue new pharmacotherapies for rare diseases because of the high failure rates and the cost of research, which make the companies'chances of recovering their investments_____________.
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The literary critic' s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author's chance to(i)_____________ positions previously (ii)_____________somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)_____________, if in fact they do.
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