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Your IQ
score is 152. This means that you are smarter than 99.9% of all
other Super IQ test takers.
This number is the result of a
scientifically-tested formula based on how many questions you
answered correctly on the Tickle Super IQ Test.
But there's
more to intelligence than a single number, a single score, or a
single label. Tickle uses 8 distinguishable dimensions of
intelligence in the Super IQ Test. By analyzing your individual
scores on those 8 scales, we are able to look beyond the raw IQ
score into how you process information, and which intellectual
strengths you're best at.
Your test results indicate that the
way you process information makes you an Imaginative
Mastermind.
You're an extremely talented person, with skills
across the board. There is next to nothing you can't do. Your
creativity gives you the ability to make connections between
different ideas and your many skills allow you to express those
ideas in any way you see fit (whether it be through the spoken word,
the written word, or a numerical equation). You also have a
practical knowledge of how things work because you pay attention and
are a quick study.
With your great imagination, you are able
to extrapolate from one situation to the next. Sometimes you are
able to imagine things that you have never seen before. You're
always questioning your own assumptions, growing wiser all the time.
That paired with your curiosity gives your intelligence a
simultaneously youthful and wise quality. Young, because your
perspective is fresh and your curiosity strong; wise, because you
have learned so much in life, so quickly, and you are so
intelligent.
Here's an example of your Imaginative
Mastermind thinking skills at work in a real-life
situation:
You are approached by a stranger who tells you
that you did a bad job parking your car, and starts to tell you the
'right' way to do it. Rather than getting defensive, you step back
and see the whole thing for what it is. You look at him closely
before responding, and notice that he doesn't seem rational. The
things he says don't make sense — your car is much smaller than he
recounts and the parking meter had not expired, like he said, but
had 20 minutes remaining. Also, you see that his shoes are worn
through and that he keeps looking over his shoulder. You even think
you might smell alcohol on his breath. It becomes clear that what he
is saying has nothing to do with you at all and so you thank him and
walk away. Your ability to assess the situation and react
accordingly probably prevented something volatile from happening. Of
course, you didn't like the tone of his voice, but you were able to
size up the entire situation instead of acting defensively, or
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Now that you know
about how you process information, let's drill down to see what your
specific intellectual strengths are. None of the intellectual
abilities is more important than any of the others. And it's your
unique scores on each of these scales, that makes you an interesting
addition to any group, office, or family.
These intellectual
strengths color your world and the way you perceive it, and also
allow you to contribute your original perspective when solving
problems and coming up with ideas. No one intellectual dimension can
define you. It's the original combination of your intellectual
strengths that makes you special.
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As you can see,
your top scores are in the areas of Organizational, Spatial, and
Logical. This is a very unusual combination — only 6 in 1,000 people
have it. Want more proof? Then pay attention to the percentages of
people who scored higher and lower than you on each of the 8
intellectual strengths.
Your
organizational ability score is 99 out of 100. Organizational
ability is what allows you to organize and arrange information
effectively, be precise, and proofread carefully.
Here's a
question that required high organizational ability:
Which of
the following is the closest match to 8,392,211,109?
A.
8,382,311,119
B. 8,3925211,129
C. 8,39,2211,209
D.
8,329,211,108
Here's the answer: The correct answer is B
because it only has two mistakes, whereas the rest have
three.
In every-day life, organizational ability is what you
use to proofread a paper or organize a messy desk. Coming up with an
organizational system for keeping track of things comes easy to
those who are high in this ability. It is a highly practical skill.
Compared with others, your organizational ability is very
high. This means that you have a very strong organizational ability.
You
scored 99 out of 100. You use spatial ability to judge the
relationship between objects and physical space, like a parked car
and the width of the road. It is also what helps you visualize a
room when you are decorating or rearranging furniture.
Here's
a question that required high spatial ability to solve:
Which
is the odd one out?
A
B
C
D
Here's the answer: The
thunderbolts in A, B, and C are all going in the same way, but the
one in D is actually a flipped version of the rest.
In
every-day life, you use this ability when you drive or even when you
are walking through a packed crowd (so that you don't run into other
people!). Some people actually use this ability to help them with
non-physical things. If they are trying to understand a situation,
they might think of the words as shapes that they need to negotiate.
Compared with others, your spatial abilities are very high.
This means that you have a very strong sense of how things exist in
physical space.
Your
scored 99 out of 100. Logical ability is what you use when
determining whether or not something makes sense. You rely on logic
when analyzing an argument, step-by-step. This ability also
contributes to your aptitude for recognizing underlying
patterns.
Here's a question that required high logical
ability to solve:
Mary loved pink flowers more than she loved
red ones. She didn't like orange flowers at all, and while she liked
yellow flowers, she couldn't say that she really loved them. Which
of these is true?
A. She liked red flowers less than orange
flowers
B. She liked yellow flowers more than red flowers
C.
She liked pink flowers more than yellow flowers
D. She liked
orange flowers more than pink flowers
Here's the answer: She
liked yellow flowers but didn't love them; however, she did love
pink and red ones - pink more than red. Thus far the order of
preference is pink, red, yellow. But she liked orange least of all,
which means the new order is pink, red, yellow, orange. This means
that she liked red more than orange (which makes option A not true).
She liked yellow less than red (which makes option B not true). She
liked pink more than yellow, which makes option C true, and she
liked orange less than any of the flowers, which makes option D not
true. Therefore, the correct answer is C.
In every-day life,
you might use this ability to figure out the best route to the
store, or to figure out the best deal when choosing between a couple
items to buy. Everyone has a certain ability to use logic to solve
problems. Some are better at it than others, however.
Compared with others, your logical ability is very high.
This means that you are an extremely logical person.
You
scored 99 out of 100. You use numerical ability when you spot a
numerical pattern or solve a numerical equation. Here's a question
that assessed your numerical ability:
Which number completes
the series? 1, 3/2, 2, 5/2, ?
Here's the answer: 3
In
every-day life, you use the ability to calculate a tip at a
restaurant, or estimate taxes on a purchase. Everyone has this
ability to a greater or lesser extent.
Compared with others,
your numerical ability is very high. This means that you have no
problem processing numbers.
Your
verbal ability score is 99 out of 100. Verbal ability means having
an expansive range of vocabulary, being able to use it, and feeling
a desire to add to it. It is also what allows you to comprehend the
relationships and subtle difference between words.
Here's a
question that required verbal ability:
The opposite of acute
is:
A. Severe
B. Incisive
C. Dull
D. Flamboyant
The opposite of the word acute, meaning sharp or finely
tuned, is dull, so the correct answer is C.
In every-day
life, verbal ability is essential to being able to interpret written
materials. It's also valuable for communication — the more
vocabulary words you know, the more precisely you may be able to
convey your point.
Compared with others, your verbal ability
is very high. This means that you have a very strong verbal ability.
You
scored 98 out of 100. Mechanical ability is what helps you
understand how machines and tools work. Someone with a good amount
of mechanical ability probably has an innate understanding of
physics. High mechanical skill is also associated with a high degree
of precision and practical thinking.
Here's a question that
required high mechanical ability to solve:
Which object will
fall faster? A 8 x 11 piece of paper or a peanut? Both weight the
same amount.
A. The piece of paper
B. The peanut
C. It
is impossible to know
The paper will encounter more
resistance than will the peanut, and so it will fall more slowly.
The peanut will fall faster and so the correct answer is
B.
In every-day life, mechanical ability comes in handy when
anything in the house breaks, or when you have to purchase something
that requires physical assembly. It is also helpful in finding
solutions to physical problems, such as determining how to build a
pulley to bring water out of a well.
Compared with others,
your mechanical abilities are very high. This means that you have a
very strong mechanical ability.
Your
score is 97 out of 100. With abstract reasoning you can think on
multiple levels and see relationships between ideas that are not
easily apparent. When you're using your abstract reasoning skills,
you draw on both external logical and creative sources of
information to come up with your solution.
Here's a question
that required high abstract reasoning ability to solve:
What
comes next in the sequence?
   
Here's the
answer: The progression from one figure to the next is the addition
of 1/2 of the previously added box. So the first figure is one box;
the second figure is the first box plus a box 1/2 of its size; the
third figure is the previous two boxes plus a box 1/2 of the last
added box's size. Therefore the final figure (the question mark)
should be the third figure plus a box 1/2 of the last added box. The
correct answer is B.
In every-day life, abstract reasoning
ability is used to understand complex, multi-layered situations,
sometimes involving the associations and relationships between two
seemingly different sets of information. For example, imagine
someone who has taken piano lessons and was taught that the skill
was more easily obtained when she pointed out her struggles to her
teacher. She was able to learn from them and improve. This same
woman then takes writing lessons and again makes her mistakes
obvious so that the instructor can suggest changes and she can
improve.
Compared with others, your abstract ability is very
high. This means that you have a very strong abstract ability.
Your
score is 93 out of 100. Visual ability allows you to accurately
visualize all aspects of an object for the purposes of recreating
it, the way painters do. It's also what you use to imagine a scene
from a novel or a story someone tells you — the ability to
accurately reproduce reality in the mind's eye.
Here's a
question that required high visual ability to solve:
Which of
the images below is a perfect square?
Here's the answer: Eyeballing it, you can see that
image A is the square with identical length and height, and so the
correct answer is A.
In every-day life, visual ability is
what you use when creating original art. In order to reproduce an
object on canvas (as painters do) you have to be able to accurately
represent the dimensions of those objects in the picture. Getting
the accurate perspective and depth is easiest for someone with a
strong visual ability.
Compared with others, your visual
ability is very high. This means that you have a very strong visual
ability.
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Want a higher score
next time? Here are some activities you can do before taking your
next IQ test.
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Get more oxygen to your brain. You'll
be able to think more clearly. To do this, go for a walk, or
simply take deep, long breaths. Practicing yoga is also good.
Some even claim you can get more oxygen by swimming
underwater, and holding your breath for longer and longer
periods of time. This increases the amount of oxygen in your
brain and will allow you to focus better on the
test.
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Take time to relax. If you feel
anxious, you'll probably make more mistakes. Practice peaceful
visualization, imagining scenes that are calming to you.
Meditate or do whatever it is you know calms you down, before
taking the test.
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Listen to Mozart. It may sound like a
stretch, but some researchers have found that listening to
Mozart actually increases your spatial IQ. They call it the
Mozart Effect and believe that the music stabilizes the neural
connections necessary for spatial-temporal
abilities
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Practice, practice, practice. Take a
range of different types of IQ tests. The greater the range of
problems, the more ready you'll be to tackle the unexpected on
a new IQ test. Why not take Tickle's Ultimate IQ test, if you
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Which rectangle is on top of all the
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The rectangle that has no lines going through it is the
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If Kentwood is closer to Marshall than Bershire,
and Marshall is closer to Kentwood than Bershire, then
Bershire is closer to:
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Kentwood |
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Marshall |
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Kentwood and Marshall are closer to one another than they
are to Bershire. But since there is no information about how
far Bershire is away from Kentwood or Marshall, it's
impossible to know to which it is closer. Therefore the
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Which number completes this series? 99, 97, 95,
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Each of these numbers is equal to the previous number in
the series, minus 2. Therefore, the correct answer is 93, or
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Which rectangle is bigger, the yellow one or the
pink one?
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The pink rectangle |
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The yellow rectangle |
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Shirts on sale for 1/2 off have a red tag.
Shirts on sale for 1/4 off have a blue tag. Stephen bought two
red-tagged shirts originally priced at $10 each, and one
blue-tagged shirt originally priced at $16. How much did he
spend before taxes?
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Stephen bought two red-tagged shirts that were $10 a
piece, but they were selling for 1/2 off, or $5. Therefore,
Stephen spent $10 total for two red-tagged shirts. He bought
only one blue tagged shirt, originally priced at $16. If it
was 1/4 off, that is the same as saying it was 3/4 of the
total price = 3/4x16 = $12.00. All in all then he spent $10 on
red-tagged shirts and $12 on blue-tagged shirts, for a total
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Which object will fall faster when dropped from
the top of a building in normal weather conditions? An 8 x 11
piece of paper or a peanut? Both weigh the same amount.
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The piece of paper |
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The peanut |
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The paper will encounter more resistance than will the
peanut, and so it will fall more slowly. The correct answer is
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What is another word for irksome?
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Confused |
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Tiresome |
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Motivating |
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Another word for irksome, meaning irritating to the point
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What comes next in the sequence?
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The progression from one figure to the next is the
addition of 1/2 of the previously added box. So the first
figure is one box; the second figure is the first box plus a
box 1/2 of its size; the third figure is the previous two
boxes plus a box 1/2 of the last added box's size. Therefore,
the final figure (the question mark) should be the third
figure plus a box 1/2 of the last added box. The correct
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Marts are twice as long as Mops. Mops are three
times as long as Worbs. That means that:
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Worbs are six times as long as Marts |
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Marts are six times as long as Worbs |
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Marts are eight times as long as Worbs |
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Worbs are eight times as long as
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Mops are three times as long as Worbs, or Mops = 3xWorbs.
Marts are twice as long as Mops, or Marts = 2xMops.
Therefore, if you plug in 3xWorbs for Mops, you get: Marts
= 2x(3xWorbs) = 6xWorbs. This is equivalent to saying that
Marts are six times as long as Worbs, or B. |
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The deli sells beef on Tuesdays for 50% off and
ham on Wednesdays for 40% off. If ham is $2.50 per pound and
beef is $2.00 per pound, then which is cheaper: a pound of ham
on Wednesdays or a pound of beef on Tuesdays?
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The ham |
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The beef |
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A pound of ham on Wednesday is equal to the regular price
of ham ($2.50 per pound) minus the discount($2.50 x 0.40).
This is the same as saying that the price = $2.50 - (0.4 x
2.50) = $2.50 - $1.00 = $1.50. For beef, the normal selling
price is $2.00. If it is 50% off the price on Tuesdays, then
this is the equation = $2.00 - (0.5 x 2.00) = $2.00 - $1.00 =
$1.00. Therefore, the beef is cheaper, or B. |
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The line is longer in which image?
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When the circles are placed at the ends of the line, as in
figure B, it can have the visual effect of making the line
look longer than it actually is. The opposite is true when the
circles are placed within the line, as in figure A. But the
two lines are the exact same length, so the correct answer is
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Alphabetize the following words: Kensington,
Kempthorn, Kirkwood, Kentfield.
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Kirkwood
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Kensington
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Kempthorn
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The first letter (K) is the same for all four names. The
second letter (E) is the same for three of the names but
different for the fourth (I in Kirkwood). Since (I) comes
after (E), Kirkwood is alphabetized last of the group. For the
other three, consider the third letter - the (M) in Kempthorn
comes before the (Ns) in the other two, Kensington and
Kentfield. Then to determine the order of the last two, note
that the fourth letter of Kensington is an (S) where as the
fourth letter of Kentfield is a (T). Therefore, Kensington
should be alphabetized before Kentfield. The correct answer is
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Each of these boxes is filled with tiny marbles
of identical size and shape. Which of them contains the most
marbles?
 
 
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The box with the greatest volume will contain the most
marbles. Volume can be determined by multiplying length and
width and height. Box A has a volume of 8x4x2 = 64. Box B has
a volume of 6x5x2 = 60. Box C has a volume of 10x1x1 = 10.
Finally, Box D has a volume of 5x8x2 = 80. Therefore, Box D
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Which chair could fit under this
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Either one could fit under the
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Eyeballing it, you can see that Chair A is too tall, but
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The opposite of acute is:
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Severe |
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The opposite of the word acute, meaning sharp or finely
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Which image is not like the others?
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The ball and the half-circle in figures A, B, and D are on
opposite sides of the image (the left-hand side and the
right-hand side). In image C, they are on the same side of the
image (the left-hand side). Therefore, the correct answer is
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On Monday, Kelly ran one-half as fast as she
normally does, and twice as fast as she did last Saturday. If
she runs 4 miles per hour normally, how many miles per hour
did she run on Saturday?
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If Kelly normally runs 4 miles per hour, then on Monday
Kelly ran one-half as fast, or 2 miles per hour. But then on
Monday she ran twice as fast as she did last Saturday which
means that her speed last Saturday = 1/2 the speed she ran on
Monday, or 1/2x2 miles per hour. Therefore, on Saturday she
ran 1/2x2 = 1 mile per hour. The correct answer is A. |
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Three identically-sized balloons are filled up
with different amounts of air. Which of the three balloons,
shown below, would be hardest to pop with a pin?
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The balloon that is filled with the most air will be
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hardest to pop is the smallest one, or C. |
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List the following words alphabetically: heart,
nose, head, hair.
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Hair
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To alphabetize, look at the second and third letters. The
(A) in hair is earlier in the alphabet than is the (E) in
heart or head, or the (O) in nose (the (E) in heart and head
comes before the (O) in Nose). To order head and heart,
compare the (D) in head to the (R) in heart; (D) comes before
(R) in the alphabet and therefore the correct ordering is the
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Once the car starts moving, which wheel will
travel more ground?
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The front wheel |
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The back wheel |
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The back wheel will make fewer revolutions than the front
wheel. However, each wheel will have traveled the same number
of miles. Therefore, the correct answer is C. |
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What means the opposite of timid?
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Aspiring |
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Bold |
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Another word for timid is shy, meaning fearful or
hesitant. That means bold would be the opposite. The correct
answer is B. |
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Which of the images below is a perfect
square?
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identical length and height, and so the correct answer is A.
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Organize these words into two logical groups:
nail, fish, hammer, pet, tool, cat, dog.
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Nail, hammer, tool, fish
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Nail, tool, hammer
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C. |
Nail, fish, cat
Pet, dog, tool, hammer |
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D. |
Hammer, tool, dog
Nail, pet, cat,
fish |
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The two logical groups are animals (pet, cat, dog, fish),
and tools (nail, hammer, tool). Therefore, the correct answer
is B. |
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| 24. |
Which circle is bigger?
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A |
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B |
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They are the same size |
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The V shape gives the illusion of depth. An image showing
two objects of the same size (as these are), but at different
distances away (from a definitive boundary) usually indicates
that the object that is farther away is, in reality, larger
than the object that is closer. But if you look closely,
that's not true in this case. The circles are the same size,
so the correct answer is C. |
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| 25. |
Mary loved pink flowers more than she loved red
ones. She didn't like orange flowers at all, and while she
liked yellow flowers, she couldn't say that she really loved
them. Which of these is true?
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A. |
She liked red flowers less than orange flowers |
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B. |
She liked yellow flowers more than red flowers |
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C. |
She liked pink flowers more than yellow flowers |
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D. |
She liked orange flowers more than pink
flowers |
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Mary liked yellow flowers but didn't love them; however,
she did love pink and red ones - pink more than red. Thus far,
the order of her preference is: pink, red, yellow.
But
Mary liked orange least of all, which means the new order is:
pink, red, yellow, orange.
This means that she liked
red more than orange (which makes option A not true). She
liked yellow less than red (which makes option B not true).
She liked pink more than yellow, which makes option C true,
and she liked orange less than any of the flowers, which makes
option D not true. Therefore, the correct answer is C. |
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| 26. |
Which color is there more of?
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A. |
Yellow |
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B. |
Purple |
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C. |
Neither - there is the same amount of yellow and
purple |
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Eyeballing it, you can see that there is more purple than
yellow, so the correct answer is B |
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| 27. |
Kip was on his way to class. He was 5 minutes
late leaving and then was stuck in traffic for 10 minutes. He
ran into a friend just before arriving at class and talked
with her for 13 minutes. How many minutes late was he to
class?
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A. |
10 |
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B. |
15 |
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C. |
23 |
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D. |
28 |
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Kip was 5 minutes late at first, and then he was stuck in
traffic for 10 minutes, making him a total of 15 minutes late.
Then he was delayed an additional 13 minutes, for a total of
28 minutes. The correct answer is D. |
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| 28. |
Which is the odd one out?
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A |
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B |
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C |
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D |
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The thunderbolts A, B, and C are all pointing in the same
way (from upper left to lower right). But D is actually a
flipped version of the rest (pointing from upper right to
lower left). |
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| 29. |
Organize these words into two logical groups of
two: wish, search, hope, look.
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A. |
Wish, search
Hope, look |
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B. |
Wish, hope
Search, look |
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C. |
Search, hope
Look, wish |
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D. |
Wish, look
Search, hope |
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Search and look are both verbs that describe trying to
find something. Wish and hope are both words that describe
positive anticipation for the future, so the logical grouping
is found in B. |
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| 30. |
Which staple fits best into this
stapler?
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A. |
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B. |
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C. |
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Eyeballing it, you can see that the first staple A is the
only one small enough to fit, so the correct answer is A. |
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| 31. |
The opposite of pronounced is:
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A. |
Subtle |
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B. |
Caring |
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C. |
Picturesque |
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D. |
Stylish |
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The opposite of pronounced, meaning obvious or prominent,
is subtle, so the correct answer is A. |
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| 32. |
Which of these cans is not like the
others?
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A |
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B |
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C |
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D |
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In all but one of the cans the ball is off to one side. D
is the only can in which the ball is nearly in the middle, so
the correct answer is D. |
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| 33. |
Half of Miks are Maks. One-fourth of Maks are
Mokes. If Kerry has 400 Miks, how many Mokes has he got?
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A. |
50 |
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B. |
100 |
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C. |
200 |
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D. |
300 |
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Kerry has 400 Miks. Since half of Miks are Maks, Kerry has
200 Maks. If 1/4 of Maks are Mokes, then Kerry has 1/4x200 =
50 Mokes. Therefore, the correct answer is 50, or A. |
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| 34. |
You want to make a temporary step stool to reach
a high shelf in a library. You have these three books to use.
How should you stack them to best ensure your
safety?
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A. |
Book 2 should be on the bottom, book 3 on the top |
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B. |
Book 1 should be on the bottom, book 2 on the top |
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C. |
Book 3 should be on the bottom, book 2 on the top |
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D. |
Book 2 should be on the bottom, book 1 on the
top |
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The most stable step stool can be made by putting the
largest book on the bottom as a base and the smallest book on
the top. Therefore, the correct answer is A. |
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| 35. |
Which of the following character strings is the
closest match to 8,392,211,109?
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A. |
8,382,311,119 |
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B. |
8,3925211,129 |
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C. |
8,39,2211,208 |
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D. |
8,329,211,108 |
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The answer to question 35 is B. Try reading
each of the answer options not as numbers, but rather as a
string of characters; when you do so, you will find that B has
the fewest mismatches, position for position, in the string of
characters. See below (mismatches highlighted in red):
| Original string: |
8,392,211,109 |
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| Answer A: |
8,382,311,119 |
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3 mismatches |
| Answer B: |
8,3925211,129 |
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2 mismatches |
| Answer C: |
8,39,2211,208 |
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4 mismatches |
| Answer D: |
8,329,211,108 |
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3 mismatches | |
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| 36. |
Which number completes the series? 1, 3/2, 2,
5/2, ?
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A. |
3 |
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B. |
5/2 |
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C. |
5 |
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D. |
7/2 |
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Each number is equal to the previous number plus 1/2. The
last number in the sequence is 5/2 5/2 + 1/2 = 6/2 = 3.
Therefore, the correct answer is A, or 3. |
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| 37. |
Which of the central circles is
bigger?
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A. |
A |
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B. |
B |
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C. |
They are the same size |
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The smaller circles surrounding the center circle in image
B give the illusion that the center circle is actually larger
than it is. In A, the circles surrounding the center circle
are much larger than they are in B. Therefore, in contrast,
the centrer circle A looks smaller than the center circle B,
when in actuality they are the same size, so the correct
answer is C. |
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| 38. |
Which of the following has the most spelling
mistakes if the correct spelling is: Wichenhausingtonshire?
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A. |
Wichenhausingtonshire |
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B. |
Wishenhausingmonshire |
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C. |
Wissenhaasimgtomshike |
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D. |
Kichenhausingtonshire |
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There are 8 mistakes in answer C. A has 0 mistakes; B has
2 mistakes; D has 1 mistake. The correct answer is C. |
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| 39. |
Which of these images can be put together to
form a triangle?
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A. |
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B. |
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C. |
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D. |
All of the above |
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All three of these images is a triangle split into pieces,
which means that the correct answer is All of the above, or D.
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| 40. |
What is another word for exquisite?
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A. |
Beautiful |
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B. |
Atrocious |
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C. |
Sturdy |
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D. |
Moderate |
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Another word for exquisite, meaning lovely and fine, is
beautiful, so the correct answer is A. |
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| 41. |
Which shape completes the hexagon?
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A. |
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B. |
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C. |
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D. |
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Eyeballing it, you can see that the shape that completes
the hexagon is C. |
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| 42. |
Ken works at a store that is open until 6pm on
Monday and Tuesday, 7pm on Wednesdays, and 5pm on Thursdays
and Fridays. Ken starts work at noon and works Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. How many hours a week does he work?
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A. |
10 |
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B. |
15 |
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C. |
17 |
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D. |
18 |
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On Monday, Ken works from noon to 6 or 6 hours. On
Wednesday, he works from noon to 7 or 7 hours, and on Friday
he works from noon to 5 or 5 hours. The total number of hours
he works in a week is 6+5+7 = 18 hours, or D. |
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| 43. |
There is a telephone pole posted at every mile
along this road. How far are the two people from each
other?
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A. |
1 mile |
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B. |
3 miles |
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C. |
4 miles |
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D. |
6 miles |
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If you count the number of poles between the feet of the
two figures, you find there are three poles in-between, for a
total of 4 miles between them. Therefore, the correct answer
is C. |
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| 44. |
11*x = 2*y. If y = 11, then x=?
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A. |
0 |
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B. |
1 |
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C. |
2 |
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D. |
11 |
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If y = 11 then the equation becomes 11*x = 2*11 = 22. If
you divide both sides by 11, you get: x = 2. Therefore, the
correct answer is 2, or C. |
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| 45. |
The two pulleys below move at 1 revolution per
minute. After 1 minute, which pulley would lift the weight
farthest off the ground?
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A. |
Pulley A |
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B. |
Pulley B |
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C. |
They will have lifted the weight the same
height |
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When both pulleys are moving the same number of
revolutions per minute, pulley A is actually pulling more rope
upward per minute. Therefore, the weight in pulley A would be
lifted further off the ground, and the correct answer is A.
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| 46. |
All booms are moons. If all moons are swoons,
then all booms are swoons.
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A. |
True |
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B. |
False |
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C. |
It's impossible to know |
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If all booms are moons and all moons are swoons, then all
booms must be swoons. Therefore the correct answer is True or
A. |
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| 47. |
What does this scale read?
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A. |
90 |
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B. |
130 |
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C. |
145 |
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D. |
155 |
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Eyeballing it, you can see the scale is about 2/3rds of
the way between 100 and 150. This is equivalent to a scale
reading of 130. Therefore, the correct answer is B. |
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| 48. |
Two trains were traveling in opposite
directions, moving away from one another. One train was moving
at 5 miles per hour. The other train was moving at 6 miles per
hour. They were 5 miles apart to begin with. After two hours,
how far apart were they?
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A. |
16 miles |
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B. |
27 miles |
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C. |
35 miles |
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D. |
60 miles |
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After one hour, they were 5 + 6 = 11 miles farther away
from one another. After two hours, they were another 11 miles
apart, for a total of 22 miles apart in 2 hour's time. This is
in addition to their initial distance of 5 miles apart, making
a total of 27 miles, or B. |
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| 49. |
Which image completes the circle?
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A. |
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B. |
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C. |
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D. |
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Eyeballing it, you can see that Answer A is the one that,
when put together with the graphic, makes a complete circle.
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| 50. |
The greens are playing the blues. The greens
have won more games than the blues. If the blues win this
game, then which of the following cannot be true?
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A. |
The blues have won more games than the greens |
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B. |
The greens have won more games than the blues |
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C. |
The greens and blues have won the same number of
games |
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D. |
The reds have beaten both the greens and the
blues |
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The greens have won more games than the blues, which means
that if the blues win the next game, they will have won one in
addition to their previous number. At most, they will have won
the same number of games as the greens. Therefore, they cannot
have won more games than the greens and the correct answer is
A. |
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| 51. |
If all Laps are Lops, all Lops are Loops, and
all Loops are Lups, then which of the following is not true?
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A. |
All Laps are Loops |
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B. |
All Loops are Laps |
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C. |
All Laps are Lups |
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D. |
All Lops are Lups |
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If all Laps are Lops, and all Lops are Loops, then all
Laps are Loops (so A is true). Now, if all Loops are Lups,
then all Laps are Lups (so C is true). Now if all Lops are
Loops and all Loops are Lups, then all Lops are Lups (so D is
true). The only one that is not true is B - so this is the
correct answer. |
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| 52. |
Which side of the teeter-totter will hit the
ground first?
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A. |
The left side |
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B. |
The right side |
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C. |
The teeter-totter won't move |
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D. |
They will hit at the same time |
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The heavier side will fall to the ground faster than the
lighter side. Therefore, the correct answer is the right side
or B. |
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| 53. |
What is another word for late?
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A. |
Incorrigible |
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B. |
Hasty |
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C. |
Silly |
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D. |
Tardy |
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Another word for late is tardy, so the correct answer is
D. |
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| 54. |
Mason was 1 street before Carey, 4 streets
before Ellis, and 19 streets before Jackson. How many streets
apart were Ellis and Jackson?
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A. |
9 |
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B. |
10 |
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C. |
14 |
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D. |
15 |
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Mason was 4 streets before Ellis and 19 streets before
Jackson. This means that Ellis was 19 - 4 = 15 streets before
Ellis. They were 15 streets apart, or "D". |
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