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For which of the age-groups is the ratio of the number of full professors to the number of associate professors the greatest?
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If 10 percent of all the faculty members under 40 at University X are in the fine arts department, approximately what percent of the faculty members in the fine arts department are under 40?
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How many faculty members at University X are either associate professors or at least 60 years old or both?
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The units digit of $$7^{34}$$ is x, and the units digit of $$6^{34}$$ is y. What is the value of the product xy?
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y < x
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If r, s, x, y and z are positive even integers that are related by the system shown, what is the median of the integers r, s, x, y and z?
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If an equilateral triangle with sides of length 20 has an altitude of length 20x, then x=?
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Mr. Thomas gave a chemistry test to 25 students and assigned each student a score. Of the 25 students, 12 students received scores that were greater than 80.
Which of the following statements individually provide(s) sufficient additional information to determine the median of the 25 scores?
Indicate all such statements.
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Many Latin American writers and critics have come to bristle at the very mention of the type of fiction termed "magic realism," but to the common reader the appeal of such fiction is _________ .
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In the 1980s the press release announcing the discovery of a new fundamental particle turned a once _______ hypothesis of interest to no more than a few hundred physicists into an undisputed fact of global significance.
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The politician was famously restrained, with a tendency to focus his fury inward: while he would defend himself publicly against detractors` attacks, he would never stoop to ________.
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She may have been (i) ________ when she was finance minister, fighting deficits, but now as prime minister she is marked by her (ii) ________ .
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The fantastic conceit of the film's plot is that global warming (i) ______ global freezing. After a chunk of Antarctic ice the size of Rhode Island suddenly melts, most of what follows-an instant ice age. for example-is impossible as science but not as metaphor. The data from the Greenland ice sheet show that, over the past hundred thousand years, temperatures have often (ii) _______ - so often that it is our own relatively static experience of climate that should now be seen as (iii) _______ .
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Despite its title and the recipes it provides, the main purpose of The Insect Cookbook is not (i) ________. Instead, the book seeks to (ii) _______ of entomophagy. i.e., the consumption of insects as food: it is composed of interviews with chiefs, farmers, politicians, and United Nations figures, all of whom attempt to (iii) ________ the custom of eating insects.
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Ultimately, according to Zuger, all medical advice is _________ : it is educated guesswork, perhaps, but guesswork all the same.
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One early sign of this new thirst for _________ is the fact that eight members of the committee on professional conduct have already recused themselves in the name of unbiased justice.
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In a production process that is complex and often unpredictable, roles that start out discretely defined may become quite ______ .
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Whereas the original editor had sacrificed clarity for brevity and her successor had been too _______, the new editor took an intermediate approach, explicit as to the purport of each document and not too ambitious in detail.
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Before feminist literary criticism emerged in the 1970s, the nineteenth-century United States writer Fanny Fem was regarded by most critics (when considered at all) as a prototype of weepy sentimentalism - a pious, insipid icon of conventional American culture. Feminist reclamations of Fern, by contrast, emphasize her "non-sentimental" qualities, particularly her sharply humorous social criticism. Most feminist scholars find it difficult to reconcile Fern's sardonic social critiques with her effusive celebrations of many conventional values. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed "flowery rhetoric," strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality. However, Tompkins proposes an alternative view of sentimentality itself suggesting that sentimental writing could serve radical, rather than only conservative, ends by swaying readers emotionally, moving them to embrace social change.
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It can be inferred that the author of the passage mentions Fern's "sharply humorous social criticism'" primarily in order to
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In the context in which it appears, "reclamations" most nearly means
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