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The tribes' _____ a settled mode of living was derived from their long-standing traditions, which, though differing from one tribal group to another, always included a resistance to nomadic lifestyles.
In her career as an editor, she pruned and shaped many a writer's _____ prose into crisp lucidity.
The often-cited parallels between human communities and insect colonies are _____: the cooperation found among social insects is essentially due to the insects genetic ties, while humans often collaborate with non-relatives.
Despite its best efforts to stimulate sales, the bookselling business remains far from _____, for it has high fixed costs in wages and rent, and falling prices make these ever harder to spur.
_____ is valuable in science, even when a scientific idea is true, it can be misused through grandiosity.
Another challenge to biologists and land-use planners alike is that while human-induced changes to the landscape are somethings _____, they can nevertheless drastically alter the habitat for some plants and animals.
The essential difference between writing nonfiction and fiction is that the artist can (i)_____ a completed vision of the world, while the journalist never can, the real world being always (ii)_____. Art provides freedom from the bewildering complexities of constant change. Indeed, it is the very (iii)_____ of well-wrought fiction that can sometimes make it fell more real than reality.
When the United States government created the Post Office at the founding of the republic, it didn't invite rival postal firms to compete; in fact, it created a monopoly. That monopoly, however, was (i)_____ free expression because of policies Congress adopted, which (ii)_____ the circulation of newspapers irrespective of their viewpoint and spread postal service throughout the country.
Wood is an environmentally friendly building material because it _____ carbon dioxide, absorbing it during growth and retaining it even after it has been turned into lumber.
When it comes to arriving at brilliant ideas, filtering out distractions might well be _____: if a person's mind is wandering, that person tends to outperform peers in a range of tasks in which flashes of insight are important.
Research indicates that many people hold (i)_____ views about government, believing that elected officials should be able to overcome differences and get things done while also regarding a willingness to compromise as a sign of (ii)_____.
At one time researchers viewed the placebo effect as (i)_____, a statistical (ii)_____ faced by those attempting an objective evaluation of the efficacy of potentially legitimate therapies. That view has changed: the placebo effect is today seen as an important part of the healing process.
It is commonly said that each person's aesthetic taste is ______, yet that notion overlooks a large body of shared aesthetic preferences.
In spite of being one of the world's biggest _____ of fossil fuels, the firm has made some environmentally responsible investments.
Many macroscopic or higher-level properties on the basis of which we sort chemicals into types are not _____ the chemical structure itself but instead only manifest themselves under certain conditions or in particular contexts.
It is rare for a prominent member of the company to leave without some ____. Smith, who resigned with civility, is an exception.
Greg's weekly salary is $187, which is 15 percent less than Karla's weekly salary. If Karla's weekly salary increases by 10 percent,by what percent must Greg's weekly salary increase in order to equal Karla's new weekly salary?

Give your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
In the rectangular coordinate system, $$(x, y)$$ is a point on a circle that has center $$(3,2)$$ and is tangent to the x-axis at $$(3, 0)$$.

Quantity A

The least possible value of $$x$$

Quantity B

0




The thin rectangular sheet of metal shown in the figure is 8 inches wide and $$x$$ inches long. An open box is to be made by cutting a 2-inch square from each corner of the sheet of metal and then folding up the sides. If the volume of the box is to be 48 cubic inches, what is the value of $$x$$ ?
A certain brand of dishwashing liquid was sold in two different bottle sizes. The small bottle was sold with $$\frac{2}{5}$$ as many ounces of liquid as the large bottle and was sold at a price that was $$\frac{1}{2}$$ the price of the large bottle.

Quantity A

The price per ounce of the liquid in the small bottle

Quantity B

The price per ounce of the liquid in the large bottle




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