Questions 15-17
The Apollo Movie Theatre showed six movies during a six-day period that began on Sunday and ended the following Friday. The movies shown, not necessarily in this order, were a musical, a comedy, a Western, a science fiction film, a horror film, and a disaster film. There was only one showing of only one movie on each day. During this six-day period, each of five paying movie reviewers, N, O, P, Q, and R, attended all the showing with the following exceptions:
There was no day of the week on which both
P and Q went to the movie.
On Tuesday and Friday, N did not go to the movies.
O never went to science fiction or horror films.
On Monday, Thursday, and Friday, P did not go to the movies.
Q never went to comedies, Westerns, or disaster films.
R never went to musicals, comedies, or Westerns.
15. If the Apollo Movie Theatre management charged the same price at all showings of the six movies, which of the following, if shown on Monday, would have brought in the LEAST revenue from the five reviewers?
(A) A musical
(B) A comedy
(C) A science fiction film
(D) A horror film
(E) A disaster film
16. If only two of the reviewers went to the same movie on a certain day, which of the following could be true?
(A) The day was Wednesday and the musical was shown.
(B) The day was Thursday and the disaster film was shown.
(C) The day was Monday and the musical was shown.
(D) the day was Tuesday and the science fiction film was shown.
(E) The day was Thursday and the horror film was shown.
17. If each of the reviewers went to the movies only once in the two-day period from Tuesday to Wednesday, and not all of the reviewers went to the movies on the same day, which of the following are possible kinds of movies shown on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively?
(A) Horror film, Western
(B) Disaster film, comedy
(C) Western, musical
(D) Musical, Western
(E) Comedy, Western
Questions 18-22
Three women-Helene, Jane, and Sue-and four men-Elliott, George, Leonard, and Robert-are eligible to serve on a three-member committee, No other people are eligible.
Jane and George are the only people in the group who are related to each other.
People who are related to each other cannot serve together.
Robert cannot serve with any of the women.
18. If Jane has been appointed, the other two members must be selected from how many people?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 6
19. If Helene and Sue have been appointed, which of the following is a complete and accurate list of those people who could possibly be selected as the third member?
(A) Jane
(B) Jane, Elliott, Leonard
(C) Elliott, George, Leonard
(D) Jane, George, Elliott, Leonard
(E) Jane, George, Elliott, Leonard, Robert
20. If Elliott and Leonard refuse to serve, what is the total number of possible combinations of committee members?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5
21. If there is an additional condition that the committee members cannot all be of the same sex, and if George has been appointed, what is the total number of people from which the other two members must be selected?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5
22. If there is an additional condition that the committee members cannot all be of the same sex, what is the total numbers of possible combinations of committee members?
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 10
(D) 12
(E) 14
23. A presidential candidate argues that the best way to fight inflation and unemployment is for the federal government to increase taxes and use the increased revenues for the creation of new jobs. His vice-presidential candidate has argued that the best way to fight inflation and unemployment is for the federal government to cut taxes and thereby encourage the private sector to create new jobs. The vice-presidential candidate says he can accept his running mate's position because they both favor creating new jobs to fight inflation and unemployment.
The vice-presidential candidate minimizes his differences with the presidential candidate by
(A) confusing their two different approaches for fighting inflation and unemployment with one another
(B) ignoring the difficulty in implementing the presidential candidate's proposes solution
(C) suggesting that there are different ways to fight inflation and unemployment
(D) implying that they will be able to work together
(E) claiming that they both have the same goal
24. The consumer and the general taxpayer subsidize the automobile in many ways that may at first be overlooked. They pay for traffic signals, extra police officers, pollution cleanup, and traffic engineering departments. They also pay when the cost of purchasing and maintaining land for parking space is added into a store's overhead and becomes a factor in determining the prices that the store will charge.
Which of the following sentences would provide the most logical conclusion for this paragraph?
(A) People who demand public subsidy of underground mass transportation are asking for an unprecedented kind of support.
(B) Because only the automobile incurs hidden expenses, this country should support underground mass transit systems.
(C) People who expect underground mass transit systems to operate without subsidy, therefore, are not being realist.
(D) Increasing emphasis on underground mass transportation, therefore, will change our style of life in ways we cannot even imagine.
(E) People who expect underground mass transit systems to gradually supplant out reliance on the automobile are not being realistic.
25. People who advocate gun control often do so because they think that potentially harmful weapons should be registered with proper authorities; but would they also be in favor of registering kitchen knives, crowbars, and even people's hands?
Which of the following parallels the method of argumentation above but argues for an opposing view?
(A) If potentially harmful weapons like guns do not need to be registered, then why can citizens not posses their own atom bombs without government regulation?
(B) If the ownership of guns is controlled through a system of registration, would it not be harder for criminals to purchase and use such weapons?
(C) Since the Second Amendment guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, would it not be unconstitutional for that right to be limited, even by the government?
(D) Since the government issues many regulations governing ordinary activities, why should it not regulate a serious activity like the use of handguns and rifles?
(E) If the government requires that guns be registered, then what is to stop it from requiring that hunting bows, spears, and even fishing rods be registered? |
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