QUESTION: 253

Television programming experts maintain that with each 1% increase in the prime-time ratings of a television station there is a 3.5% increase in the number of people who watch its evening news program. However, in the last ten years at Channel NTR, there was only one year of extremely high prime-time ratings and during that year, fewer people than ever watched Channel NTR’s evening news program.
Which of the following conclusions can properly be drawn from the statements above?

When a news program has good ratings, the channel as a whole will have good ratings.
The programming experts neglected to consider daytime news programs.
The year of high ratings at NTR was a result of two hit shows which were subsequently canceled because of contractual problems.
The ten-year period in question is not representative of normal viewing patterns.
Prime-time ratings are not the only factor affecting how many people watch an evening news program.

Answer(s): E

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QUESTION: 254

The people who are least likely to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service this year are those who have been audited since 1985 and who were found to have made no mistakes in filing their returns during that audit.

Of the following people, who is MOST likely to be audited by the IRS?

A person who was audited in 1986 but was not found to have made any mistakes in filing his return.
A person who was audited in 1986 and whose lawyer corrected several mistakes in the tax return prior to the filing deadline.
A person whose spouse was convicted of tax fraud in 1987, who was then audited and found to have made no mistakes.
A person who was last audited in 1984, and had no mistakes uncovered by the IRS during that audit.
A person who was audited in each of the past five years, but was found to have made no mistakes in any of the filings.

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 255

James’s grade point average puts him in the top third of the graduating class of college A. Nestor is in the top tenth of the same class. Elizabeth had the same grade point average as Nestor. Nancy has a lower grade point average than Elizabeth.
If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true?

James has a higher grade point average than Elizabeth.
James has a higher grade point average than Nancy.
Nestor has a higher grade point average than Nancy.
Elizabeth and Nancy both have a higher grade point average than James.
Nestor and James both have a higher grade point average than Nancy.

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 256

Whenever a major airplane accident occurs, there is a dramatic increase in the number of airplane mishaps reported, a phenomenon that may last for as long as a few months after the accident. Airline officials assert that the publicity given the gruesomeness of major airplane accidents focuses media attention on the airline industry and the increase in the number of reported accidents is caused by an increase in the number of news sources covering airline accident, not by an increase in the number of accidents.
Which of the following, if true, would seriously weaken the assertions of the airline officials?

The publicity surrounding airline accidents is largely limited to the country in which the crash occurred.
Airline accidents tend to occur far more often during certain peak travel months.
News organizations do not have any guidelines to help them decide how severe or how close an accident must be for it to receive coverage.
Airplane accidents receive coverage by news sources only when the news sources find it advantageous to do so.
Studies by government regulations show that the number of airplane flight miles remains relatively constant from month to month.

Answer(s): B

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