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Q21What additional information do average rate problems require you to find?
✓ Correct answer: B. Total distance and total time
An average rate problem also requires total distance and total time. For the average rate you would first have to find the total distance or change and the total time involved. You would then divide the total change or distance by the total time to find your average rate.
Q22John worked the following number of hours per month during the first six months of the year.<br/><br/>January: 197.34 hours<br/>February: 199.04 hours<br/>March: 212.34 hours<br/>April: 194.45 hours<br/>May: 194.54 hours<br/>June: 221.43 hours<br/><br/>List his monthly work-hours from the lowest to the highest in terms of months.
✓ Correct answer: C. April, May, January, February, March, June
Here is the ascending list along with each month work-hours:<br/><br/>April: 194.45 hours, May: 194.54 hours, January: 197.34 hours, February: 199.04 hours, March: 212.34 hours, June: 221.43 hours<br/><br/>So, eliminating the numbers we get, April, May, January, February, March, June.
Q23Simplify <tex>3 x(4 x - 7)</tex>
✓ Correct answer: A. <tex>12x^2 - 21x</tex>
<tex>3x(4x - 7) = 3x(4x) - 3x(7)</tex>.
Q24Which course of action most improves the following sentence?<br/><br/>Only a few areas of the country continue to operate without daylight savings time.
✓ Correct answer: D. Change savings to saving.
<i>Daylight saving time</i>is commonly miswritten as <i>dayli?htsavin?s time</i>, but the former is correct.
Q25Dr. Walker is an emergency room physician who is writing a paper on hyberbaric oxygen for first year medical students. Dr. Walker is unconsciously very biased about this treatment. In his paper, he writes, 'The patient should be exposed to fresh air, and hyperbaric oxygen should only be used as a last resort.' However, the most recent literature says that hyperbaric oxygen should be used whenever a patient's serum carbon monoxide level is above a certain number. Dr. Walker's mistake here was that <code>________</code>.
✓ Correct answer: C. He allowed his personal opinion to enter into what should have been an objective, informational paper
Dr. Walker was writing his paper for a group of medical students to teach them about hyperbaric oxygen treatment. He should have simply stuck to the facts about this particular treatment.
Q26English people in the Renaissance were accustomed to consulting wizards and astrologers for help in curing disease, identifying thieves, and to locate lost property.<br/><br/>Each present a sentence with four underlined terms or phrases. Read each sentence and determine whether any of the underlined portions contains an error or is incorrectly written. If so, select the answer choice containing the underlined portion that must be revised to correct the sentence. If there are no errors in the sentence as written, select "No error." Each sentence contains no more than one error. Choose the underlined term or phrase that is incorrect.
✓ Correct answer: D. to locate
Parallel structure requires the form locating.
Q27Which sentence uses the word 'accept' correctly?
✓ Correct answer: A. I will accept his homework late.
'Accept' means 'to receive, in this case to receive homework late.
Q28Lobe, (whose, who) (hammers, hammer) large sheets of aluminum around real trees and rocks, (is, are) warning us about the impact of human technology on nature.
✓ Correct answer: B. who, hammers, is
"Who" describes Lobe who hammers the aluminum. Lobe is singular and in present tense so the verb at the end is "is" so that it agrees in number.
Q29Check the parallelism of the following sentence. Choose the answer that best corrects the problem.<br/><br/><i>We neither had money nor enough time to escape.</i>
✓ Correct answer: C. We had neither enough money nor enough time to escape.
The structures directly following the conjunctions have to match and that's the important lesson about parallel structure.
Q30Identify the verb in the following sentence and then decide if the verb is in the active or passive voice.<br/><br/>The sculpture was painted in the bright colors of American Folk Art.
✓ Correct answer: C. was painted, passive
"Was" is a helping verb paired with the action verb "painted". In the sentence, there is not a subject completing the task of painting; instead the subject "sculpture" is acted upon. In the passive voice, the agent performing the action may be omitted or located in a prepositional phrase.
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