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Marine biologists who study octopuses often describe the animals' behavior as ______: an octopus solving a puzzle box one day may ignore an identical box the next, as though bored by a problem it has already mastered.

The novelist's third book, structured as a series of interlocking short stories, ______ far less attention than her earlier, more conventional novels.

The bridge was closed for repairs for six months. ______ traffic on the parallel route increased by nearly forty percent.

If 3x + 7 = 22, what is the value of x?

A jacket originally priced at $80 is discounted 25%, and then an additional 10% is taken off the discounted price at checkout. What is the final price?

Two angles are supplementary. If one angle measures 65 degrees, what is the measure of the other angle?

The Fairhaven town council replaced every streetlight in the downtown district with brighter fixtures last spring, at considerable expense, and the replacement was finished before the summer began. In the twelve months since the work was completed, the number of reported nighttime burglaries downtown has fallen by roughly a third. A council member points out that no change in police staffing or patrol routes was announced during that period, and concludes that the new lighting is what caused the decline in burglaries. Which one of the following is an assumption required by the council member's argument?

Northfield College reports that graduates who studied abroad earn higher starting salaries than graduates who did not. The dean of international programs argues that studying abroad improves job prospects, and she proposes requiring a term overseas of every student. She notes that the college's overseas programs have room for the additional students without further expense. Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the dean's argument?

Curator: The bronze figure should be returned to the region it came from. It was removed during an occupation, without the consent of anyone who could have granted it, and no later purchase cures that. Registrar: The figure was bought in good faith at public auction sixty years ago, and the region it came from is now divided among three states, none with a stronger claim than this museum's. Ownership has to rest somewhere, and it rests here. The curator and the registrar disagree over whether

For thirty years the Halvorsen Workshop has repaired medieval tapestries by weaving replacement threads in colors matched to the faded originals rather than to the brilliant hues those originals once carried. Critics of the practice argue that matching the faded state freezes an accident of decay and hands visitors a work no weaver ever intended. Ingrid Halvorsen answers that every restoration chooses a moment to preserve, and that the only moment a conservator can actually document is the one in front of her, since the original dye lots are known solely by inference. Her opponents reply that inference is precisely what scholarship exists to supply, and that refusing to use it is not humility but abdication. What both sides pass over is that visitors are told nothing either way. The wall label records the year of repair and the workshop name, and says nothing about which palette was chosen or on what grounds. A dispute presented as a conflict between two philosophies of restoration is, in practice, invisible to the audience whose experience it is supposed to govern. Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

Lawyers selecting a jury may remove a limited number of prospective jurors without stating a reason. Courts have long held that such strikes may not be used on the basis of race, and a party suspecting they have been may demand an explanation. Legal sociologist Wendell Achebe examined twelve hundred transcripts in which such a challenge was raised. Explanations were accepted by the trial judge in more than nine cases in ten. The reasons given were most often demeanor: the juror seemed inattentive, or hesitant, or too eager. Achebe observes that demeanor is unreviewable by design, since an appellate court reads a transcript and cannot see a face, and that a rule requiring a reason but accepting any reason a judge finds plausible places the whole weight of the protection on a single unrecorded impression. He suggests the doctrine has been judged by whether it produces hearings rather than by what the hearings decide. Achebe would be most likely to agree with which one of the following?

Roughly twenty states restrict the ability of cities to build their own broadband networks, and the restrictions are defended on a competition rationale: a municipal network subsidized by taxes will deter private investment that would otherwise arrive. Yevgenia Hollar tested the rationale where it is testable, in counties that straddle a state boundary and are otherwise similar. She found no private deployment in the restricted counties either, and concluded that the deterrence argument assumes an investment that was not coming. Hollar is careful about the scope of her claim. Where a private network already exists, she says, a subsidized entrant may well deter upgrades, and the rationale is not empty; her finding concerns places where the private option is absent. The policy she recommends follows that distinction: restrict municipal entry only where a private provider already serves the area at a stated speed. Which one of the following policies most closely conforms to the principle Hollar recommends?

If n is a positive integer and 6n is divisible by 4, what is the least possible value of n?

Two straight lines cross, and one of the four angles formed is 4 times as large as an angle adjacent to it. What is the measure, in degrees, of the larger of those two angles?

A table reports website visits by source: Search 4200, Social 2800, Email 1500, Direct 2500. Search visits exceed Social visits by what percent?

The curator's knowledge of medieval ivories was so ______ that visiting scholars routinely deferred to her judgment on questions of provenance.

The fellowship's requirements are ______: candidates must clear seven separate reviews, each with its own deadline, before any interview is offered.

Engineers note that the weir checks the flow of the river below the mill. As used here, 'checks' most nearly means

A nurse is meeting with a 26 year old client who says she and her partner hope to conceive within the next few months. The client has no chronic illness and takes no prescription medication. She asks what she can do now, before a pregnancy begins, to give a baby the best start. The nurse is planning preconception teaching. Which recommendation should the nurse include?

A nurse is caring for an 82 year old client who had surgical repair of a fractured hip two days ago. The client is drowsy from a long night, cannot reposition without help, and has been lying in the same position for several hours. The nurse is planning care aimed at preventing the complications of immobility. Which nursing action best addresses this risk?

A 52 year old client is admitted the night before a scheduled hysterectomy. While the nurse completes the preoperative checklist the client says, "I keep thinking about the surgery tomorrow and I cannot seem to settle down." The client then stops and looks at the nurse. The nurse wants to encourage the client to say more about the concern. Which response by the nurse is most therapeutic?

A nurse arriving for the day shift on a medical unit receives report on four assigned clients. None of the four have procedures or tests scheduled within the next hour, and all of them are awake and able to speak in full sentences. The nurse plans the order in which to make the first round of visits. Which client should the nurse assess first?

A nurse is returning phone calls from clients in the prenatal clinic. Four clients in the third trimester have left messages describing symptoms that began today. All four are otherwise healthy and have had uncomplicated pregnancies so far. The nurse must decide which client to call back first. Which reported symptom requires the most immediate follow up?

A nurse is seeing a client at nine weeks gestation for a first prenatal visit. The client says she is embarrassed to bring it up, but she has been getting up to urinate two or three times a night and feels like she needs to go constantly during the day. She denies burning, urgency with pain, or foul odor. Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?