GRE Preparation Kit 2 - Section 3

[Samuel]

SECTION 3

Time –30 minutes

25 Questions

1. Armtech, a temporary-employment agency, previously gave its employees 2.5 paid vacation   
    days after each 700 hours worked. Armtech's new policy is to give its employees 5.0 paid   
    vacation days after each 1,200 hours worked. Therefore, this new policy is more generous to       
    Armtech employees in giving them more vacation days per hour worked than the old policy did.
    Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends

(C) The eggs of frog species whose populations are declining tend to have higher concentrations of
      damaging pesticides than do the eggs of frog species whose populations have not declined.
(D) In many places where turtles, which lay eggs with tough, leathery coverings, share habitats
      with frogs, turtle populations are also in decline.
(E) Populations of frog species that hide their eggs beneath rocks or under sand have declined
      considerably less than have populations of frog species that do not cover their eggs.

Questions 3-8

A doctor is scheduling one appointment each with five patients— J, K, L, M, and N. The five appointments will be consecutive and are numbered 1 through 5, from earliest to latest. The doctor must schedule at least four of the patients for appointments preferred by those patients and cannot schedule any patient for an appointment unacceptable to that patient. The following is a complete list
of what the patients prefer and, if they do not receive their preferences, will accept

Questions 9-10 are based on the following graph.

In January of 1990 a certain country enacted a strict new law to deter people from drunken driving. The law imposes mandatory jail sentences for anyone convicted of drunken driving.

9. Which of the following, if true about the years 1990 through 1992, most helps to explain the data 
    illustrated in the graph implemented, but many have not.
(C) Assembly-line workers now need increased reading and mathematical skills to do their jobs.
(D) Some of the innovations in assembly-line processes and procedures that were made to increase
      productivity have instead proved to be counterproductive.
(E) The manufacturing companies are increasing the average age of their assembly-line workforce
      while still seeking to increase production.

12. During the nineteenth century, Britain's urban population increased as its rural population
      diminished. A historian theorizes that, rather than industrialization's being the cause, this     
      change resulted from a series of migrations to urban areas, each occasioned by a depression in
      the agrarian economy. To test this hypothesis, the historian will compare economic data with
      population census data. The historian's hypothesis would be most strongly supported if which
      of the following were found to be true

Questions 17-22

A science teacher is selecting projects for each of two classes from a group of exactly seven projects— R, S,T, V, X, Y, and Z. The teacher will assign projects to Class 1 and Class 2 according to the following conditions

(E) The average large business contributes more money to politicians’ campaign funds than the
average small business does.

24 In the workplace, influenza is typically spread by infected individuals to others with whom they work in close quarters. A new medication that suppresses the symptoms of influenza therefore will actually increase the number of influenza cases, because this medication will allow people who would otherwise be home in bed to return to work while infected. Which of the following, if true, most seriously challenges the prediction