Square BDFG is inscribed in isosceles triangle ACE. If the area of triangular region ACE is 1, what is the area of triangular region BCD?
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According to the table, the percent of households in 1980 with neither a microwave oven nor a central air conditioner must be in which of the following inclusive intervals?
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If an integer is chosen at random from the integers between 101 and 550, inclusive, what is the probability that the chosen integer will begin with the digit 1, 2 or 3, and end with the digit 4, 5, or 6?
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There is little question that in primates there is (i) ___________ between monogamous mating partnerships and extensive male care of infants. Nevertheless, that does not mean male care is(ii) ___________ situations in which females mate with more than one male; studies of savanna baboons show that male care certainly can occur in nonmonogamous systems.
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Except for a few passages in the biography in which the subject`s flaws are (i) ___________, the author`s treatment of her subject is (ii)_____________.
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The _____________ of Craig`s government had left the nation almost totally unprepared for war when it came.
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The (i)____________ in local coverage of a rabies outbreak in colonial Hanoi may be startling today, but it cannot be attributed solely to the (ii)____________ of the era`s journalists. Rather, before the advent of modern public health systems, (iii)____________ the unpleasantness of the disease and its treatment was seen as a way to ensure that the public remained vigilant against possible sources of contagions.
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While Pompeian houses vary in their size, ground plan, and decorative schemes, they do tend to _____________ certain consistent design motivations： their owners all seem to have aimed toward creating a certain kind of domestic space.
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California's building codes are more _____________ than those elsewhere in the United States to ensure that structures are capable of protecting people from frequent seismic events.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction, since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____________ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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Not all Native American languages have lexical classes corresponding to those of other languages: many have no adjectival category, and some have even brought the ________ of nouns and verbs into question.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction; since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____________ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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Some critics claim that because medical journals receive (i) _____________ selection of findings from clinical trials—mainly those trials that show (ii) _____________ results for the drugs being tested—readers of those journals believe that some medications are more (iii) _____________ than they really are, even when those medications are little more than placebos.
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In the solar system, collisions involving cosmic objects are among the most _____________ processes shaping surfaces: images of many solar system objects show a proliferation of impact craters formed throughout the past 4.5 billion years.
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In the argument given, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
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Which of the following can be inferred about the action mentioned in the highlighted portion of the passage?
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Appearing in the midst of so many equivocal comments, this unambiguous statement, whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as _____.
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