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A certain package of 4 brownies has 18 milligrams of cholesterol per brownie. The number of milligrams of cholesterol in the package of brownies is what percent less than the number of milligrams of cholesterol in 1 container of Brand K candy?
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The manager of a small business took out two one-year loans, each for the same principal amount, to be repaid with interest at the end of the year. Loan S had a simple annual interest rate of 5 percent, and loan R had a simple annual interest rate of 6 percent. If the amount owed for loan S at the end of 9 months was $26,145, what was the amount owed for loan R at the end of 10 months?
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A hardware store purchased x identical standard flashlights at $5 each and y identical deluxe flashlights at $7 each. The total cost to the store for both types of flashlights was $92. What is the ratio of x to y ?
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S is a sequence of integers in which -3 and 3 alternate, as shown. If the average (arithmetic mean) of the first n terms of S is $$-\frac{1}{5}$$, what is the value of n ?
n=_____
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Data list I and data list II are summarized by boxplot I and boxplot II, respectively, as shown above. Which of the following statements must be true?
Indicate all such statements.
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Unlike some models of mathematical tasks that distinguish between lower and higher cognitive demands, Carolyn Kieran's model focuses only on the type of algebraic activity and thus is not ______ with regard to cognitive demand.
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All the scholars at the conference agree on the character of the general philosophical concepts under discussion, but this does not imply ________ with regard to details.
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The lobbyist argues that current environmental regulations must be (I)________ to prevent a recession, thus reviving the notion that economic progress and environmental protection are inherently (ii)________.
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The apparent promise of clean alternatives to environmentally harmful fossil fuels might actually (i)_______ fossil-fuel industries by framing energy problems not as a matter of excessive consumption but rather as a remediable lack of clean energy production, thus enticing citizens to (ii)______ the current energy consumption patterns from which fossil-fuel industries profit.
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Various factors complicate researchers' efforts to study time spent on housework. For example, housework may not stand out much in respondents' memories because it is so (i)_______ everyday life, and (ii)______ problems among survey subjects may thus be more severe than for other activities.
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The lack of (i)______ the poetry of the postwar decades has led not, as one might have expected, to (ii)______ poetry, but to a curious closure in which all poets and forms of poetry are (iii)_______ and alone, not even respected establishment poets, command excitement.
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Investigating physiological ______ is not how biologists typically study function and structure, but it is not entirely unreasonable—if abnormalities in the lungs hinder breathing, then the lungs are very likely the organ required for breathing.
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Many great ghost stories remain________ about the existence of their phantoms, whereas others leave no doubt about their ghosts' reality.
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Although the courts have ______ an extremely flexible test for determining the admissibility of expert testimony, that does not mean that all experts will be allowed to testify.
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For more than 100 years, anarchism has been an embarrassing estranged sibling in the family of international radicalism, and its bad behavior had made it easy to ______ the awkward but important questions anarchism poses.
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Because the organization she inherited was remarkably _____,her first priority was the establishment of a vigorous fund-raising campaign.
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Governments frequently justify their attempts to ______material by claiming that such material must be kept strictly confidential for national security reasons when in fact the principal motive may be a desire to avoid political embarrassment.
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The reason geological activity on Mars is so (1)_____while on Earth it remains (2)______ is that Earth's diameter is about twice the size of Mars'. Because Mars is smaller than Earth, it cooled faster, and therefore it lost the internal heat that drives tectonic activity.
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The archaeologist argues that botanists have often (i)_______ the role of human agency in the dispersal of floral species, pointing out that a range of plants that botanists formerly thought to be (ii)______were actually introduced to Australia by people in the recent and distant past.
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