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Questions 1-5 A company employee generates a series of five-digit product

codes in accordance with the following rules:

The codes use the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and no others.Each digit occurs exactly once in any code.The second digit has a value exactly twice that of the first digit.The value of the third digit is less than the value of the fifth digit.

• If the last digit of an acceptable product code is 1, it

must be true that the (A) first digit is 2 (B) second digit is 0 (C) third digit is 3 (D) fourth digit is 4 (E) fourth digit is 0

• Which one of the following must be true about any

acceptable product code?(A) The digit 1 appears in some position before the digit 2.(B) The digit 1 appears in some position before the digit 3. 1 / 4

(C) The digit 2 appears in some position before the digit 3.(D) The digit 3 appears in some position before the digit 0.(E) The digit 4 appears in some position before the

dig - Answer: ACCEE

Questions 6-10 Exactly three films—Greed, Harvest, and Limelight—are shown during a film club's festival held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Each film is shown at least once during the festival but never more than once on a given day. On each day at least one film is shown. Films are shown one at a time. The

following conditions apply:

On Thursday Harvest is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.On Friday either Greed or Limelight, but not both, is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.On Saturday either Greed or Harvest, but not both, is shown, and no film is shown after it on that day.

• Which one of the following could be a complete and

accurate description of the order in which the films are shown at the festival?(A) Thursday: Limelight, then Harvest; Friday:

Limelight; Saturday: Harvest

(B) Thursday: Harvest; Friday: Greed, then

Limelight; Saturday: Limelight, then Greed

(C) Thursda - Answer: CADED 2 / 4

Questions 11-17 A cruise line is scheduling seven week-long voyages for the ship Freedom. Each voyage will occur in exactly one of the

first seven weeks of the season: weeks 1 through 7. Each

voyage will be to exactly one of four destinations:

Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, or Trinidad. Each destination will be scheduled for at least one of the weeks. The

following conditions apply to Freedom's schedule:

Jamaica will not be its destination in week 4.Trinidad will be its destination in week 7.Freedom will make exactly two voyages to Martinique, and at least one voyage to Guadeloupe will occur in some week between those two voyages.Guadeloupe will be its destination in the week preceding any voyage it makes to Jamaica.No destination will be scheduled for consecutive weeks.

• Which one of the following is an acceptable schedule of

destinations for Freedom, in order from week 1 through week 7?

(A) Guadeloupe, Jam - Answer: AADEAAD

Questions 18-23

There are exactly three recycling centers in Rivertown:

Center 1, Center 2, and Center 3. Exactly five kinds of

material are recycled at these recycling centers: glass,

newsprint, plastic, tin, and wood. Each recycling center recycles at least two but no more than three of these kinds of

material. The following conditions must hold:

Any recycling center that recycles wood also recycles 3 / 4

newsprint.Every kind of material that Center 2 recycles is also recycled at Center 1.Only one of the recycling centers recycles plastic, and that recycling center does not recycle glass.

• Which one of the following could be an accurate account

of all the kinds of material recycled at each recycling center in Rivertown?(A) Center 1: newsprint, plastic, wood; Center 2:

newsprint, wood; Center 3: glass, tin, wood

(B) Center 1: glass, newsprint, tin; Center 2: glass,

newsprint, tin; Center 3: newsprint, plastic,

wood - Answer: BDCDBA

1. Economist: Every business strives to increase its

productivity, for this increases profits for the owners and the likelihood that the business will survive. But not all efforts to increase productivity are beneficial to the business as a whole. Often, attempts to increase productivity decrease the number of employees, which clearly harms the dismissed employees as well as the sense of security of the retained employees.Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the economist's argument?(A) If an action taken to secure the survival of a business fails to enhance the welfare of the business's employees, that action cannot be good for the business as a whole.

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