(C)the cost of operation is an important consideration for those who buy automobiles
(D) imported cars and cars made in the United States cost approximately the same amount
(E) the automobile industry in the United States will continue to lose a significant portion of the car market to foreign car makers
Questions 8-11
While researching family tree, Anne discovered the following sketchy information about four of her ancestors:
Roy was born before John was born.
Stella died before Roy died.
Hazel died after John, Roy, and Stella died.
8. Which of the following must be true?
(A) John was born before Hazel was born.
(B) Stella was born before John died.
(C) Stella was born before Hazel, John, and Roy were born.
(D) Hazel was born after John, Roy, and Stella were born.
(E) Stella was born before Roy died.
9. If Hazel was born before Roy was born, which of the following must be true?
Ⅰ. Hazel lived longer than Roy.
Ⅱ. Hazel lived longer than John.
Ⅲ. Hazel lived longer than Stella.
(A)Ⅰonly
(B)Ⅱonly
(C)Ⅰand Ⅱ only
(D)Ⅱand Ⅲ only
(E)Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ
10. If John died before Roy died, and Roy died before Hazel was born, which of the following must be true?
(A) Stella was not alive during Roy's lifetime.
(B) John was not alive during Hazel's lifetime.
(C) Stella was not alive during John's lifetime.
(D) John was born and died during Stella's lifetime.
(E) Stella was born and died during Roy's lifetime.
11. If Hazel was born after Roy died, which of the following could be true?
(A) John was Roy's father.
(B) Roy was Stella's father.
(C) Hazel was Stella's mother.
(D) Hazel was Roy's wife.
(E) Stella was Hazel's granddaughter.
Questions 12-14
A pegboard has a total of six holes, all in a horizontal line, numbered one through six from left to right. Five pegs-one blue, one green, one red, one white, and one yellow-are to be arranged in the pegboard, one peg per hole, leaving exactly one empty hole for any arrangement. To be acceptable, any arrangement of the pegs must meet the following conditions:
The green peg must be closer to the red peg than to the blue peg.
The yellow peg must be in the hole immediately to the left of the blue peg.
The white peg must not be in a hole immediately adjacent to the blue peg.
The red peg must not be in hole number one.
12. All of the following arrangements, given in left-to-right order, meet the conditions
EXCEPT
(A) green, red, white, empty hole, yellow blue
(B) green, red, empty hole, yellow, blue, white
(C) green, white, red, yellow, blue, empty hole
(D) white, empty hole, yellow, blue, red, green
(E) empty hole, green, white, red, yellow, blue
13. If the green peg must be in the hole immediately to the left to the yellow peg, which of the following arrangements, given in left-to-right, is acceptable?
(A) Red, green, yellow, blue, empty hole, white
(B) White, red, empty hole, green, yellow, blue
(C) Empty hole, red, green, yellow, blue, white
(D) Empty hole, white, red, green, yellow, blue
(E) Empty hole, red, white, green, yellow, blue
14. If the conditions are changed so that the red peg must be in hole number one, and if hole number six is the empty hole, then the only acceptable left-to-right arrangement of the remaining pegs is
(A) green, white, yellow, blue
(B) green, yellow, blue, white
(C) green, blue, yellow, white
(D) white, yellow, blue, green
(E) white, green, yellow, blue
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